Organizational Discourse (eBook)

François Cooren is Professor of Communication at the University of Montreal

Acknowledgements
1 What is (organizational) discourse? How is this book organized?
2 Analyzing organizational discourse: Six perspectives
3 Coordination and organizing
4 Organizational culture, identity and ideology
5 Meetings: Negotiation, decision making and conflicts
6 By way of a conclusion
Endnotes
References
Index

Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Textbook Award from The Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association

An essential, high-impact resource for all organizational
discourse scholars. Cooren offers a definitive field guide
illustrating how discourse and CCO researchers move from concept to
data analysis to theory building. Cooren enables readers to
?see? how the pieces of discourse research fit together
to produce significant results.

James Barker, Dalhousie University

For students of language, communication, and organizations,
Francois Cooren has written a terrific introduction to
organizational discourse analysis. His review of six discourse
approaches is bolstered by his extensive research in the field and
his goal to help readers understand the organizing potential of
language. This organizing potential is key to knowing how
organizations are communicatively constituted. The writing in this
book is clear, accessible, and inviting. I highly recommend
it!

Gail Fairhurst, University of Cincinnati

This volume provides a superb integration of six discourse
perspectives interwoven with the thread communication constitutes
organization. It not only explicates these approaches but also
employs each of them in exemplars of enacting coorientation and
organizing, performing identity and culture, and negotiating
decisions. Overall, it is an ideal text for teaching organizational
discourse analysis.

Linda L. Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara

Francois Cooren?s new book, Organizational Discourse, is a clear, well informed, sensitive account of varied discursive approaches and topics in organizational studies. ? Cooren is very skilled and systematic about explaining technical terms and assumptions lucidly and with sustained examples. ... while the book?s special focus on discursive issues makes it most valuable as a text for courses concentrating on organizational discourse/communication issues, its breadth makes it a real option as a textbook, or a half-term text, in more generalized organizational behavior and communication classes.
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