Organizational Semiotics -

Organizational Semiotics

Multimodal Perspectives on Organization Studies
Buch | Softcover
246 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-46972-0 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This edited volume brings together two largely separate fields – organization studies and multimodal social semiotics – to develop an integrated research agenda for the novel interdisciplinary field of ‘organizational semiotics’.

Organizations, whether for profit, non-profit, or governmental, dominate much of everyday life, and multimodal communication is not only an output of organizations, but is also constitutive of them. This volume argues in particular for the importance of organization studies for social semioticians – not just as a site of application, but also as a critical contemporary context that requires novel and expanded methods of analysis and critique, and new practices of partnership. The volume addresses a range of institutions and sectors, from civil to retail to medical, from corporations to universities, and reveals how a deep engagement with their meaning-making practices produces insights not just about communication but also about the broader contemporary cultural context in which organizations play such a significant role. Fundamentally, it reveals that the rich analytical and theoretical resources of multimodal perspectives on organizations studies can – and should – make a fundamental contribution to our understanding of organizations in social life.

This volume is relevant to social semioticians and organizational researchers as well as to practitioners and decision-makers in organizations.

Louise Ravelli is Professor of Communication in the School of Arts and Media at UNSW Sydney. Her research explores how multimodality works in specific communication contexts, such as museums. She has published widely with monographs, edited volumes and articles, and is joint Chief Editor of the journal Visual Communication. Theo van Leeuwen is Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. He has published widely in the areas of visual communication, multimodality, and critical discourse analysis. His latest books are the third revised edition of Reading Images – The Grammar of Visual Design (with Gunther Kress) and Multimodality and Identity. Markus A. Höllerer is Professor of Organization and Management at UNSW Sydney. His scholarly work currently focuses on social change, novel forms of organization and governance, and institutions as multimodal accomplishments. He has been widely published in leading academic outlets and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Organization Theory. Dennis Jancsary is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Organization Studies at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). He is particularly interested in the role of language and multimodal communication at the interface of organizations and institutions. His work further includes methodological contributions to visual and multimodal analysis.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1 ‘Organizational semiotics’: Towards an integrated research agenda

Louise Ravelli, Theo van Leeuwen, Markus A. Höllerer, Dennis Jancsary

Chapter 2. Social semiotics and organization studies: Building an effective bridge

Dennis Jancsary, Markus A. Höllerer, Louise Ravelli, Theo van Leeuwen

Chapter 3. The resemiotization of health information in a family planning organization

Theo van Leeuwen, Nikolina Zonjic

Chapter 4. Organizational identity design: The evolution of a university web homepage

Nataliia Laba

Chapter 5. The emotional civil servant: On the multimodal construction of affect in ‘platform of values’ texts of Swedish public authorities

Anders Björkvall

Chapter 6. Communicating in space: Relating the physical and the social in open-plan offices

Ken Tann, Oluremi B. Ayoko

Chapter 7. Redesigning organizational relations through the built environment:

Changes at a university campus

Louise Ravelli

Chapter 8. How multimodal structures constitute organization: The meaning of structure in offline and online shopping environments

Morten Boeriis

Chapter 9 "It’s not just getting a biopsy": Transposing ‘take-home’ messages from the operating theatre to a proforma

Arpan Tahim, Jeff Bezemer

Chapter 10. Texture and texturization in organizational identity design and legitimacy work

Giorgia Aiello

Afterword

Theo van Leeuwen, Renate E. Meyer

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Multimodality
Zusatzinfo 9 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, color; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 48 Halftones, color; 2 Halftones, black and white; 49 Illustrations, color; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Planung / Organisation
ISBN-10 1-032-46972-2 / 1032469722
ISBN-13 978-1-032-46972-0 / 9781032469720
Zustand Neuware
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