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Critically Constituting Organization
Jan 2001
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In the past contingency and neo-Marxist theorists of culture reduced culture to an effect of something other than itself and as they made culture metaphorical they constituted its object of inquiry — a somewhat impossible pretension. This book extends the debate considerably. It does so through considering the work of Foucault in the context of the analysis of culture. While Foucault has had a considerable impact on organization studies up to the present no text has systematically addressed what happens to organization culture when it encounter a Foucauldian gaze. Read this book and you will find out.Stewart Clegg UTS Sydney
Multilingual Literacies : Reading and writing different worlds
Jan 2001
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The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate theoretical and methodological insights from both fields and provide detailed accounts of everyday practices of reading and writing in different multilingual settings. The focus is primarily on linguistic minority groups in Britain and on the language and literacy experiences of children and adults in rural and urban communities. Together the chapters of the volume build up a rich and illuminating picture of specific ways in which literacy is bound up with cultural practices and with different ways of seeing the world. They also address fundamental questions about the relationship between language literacy and power in multi-ethnic contexts. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>
When Listeners Talk : Response tokens and listener stance
Jan 2001
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Listeners are usually considered recipients in conversational interaction whose main activity is to take in messages from other speakers. In this view the listening activity is separate from speaking. Another view is that listeners and speakers are equal co-participants in conversations who construct the talk together. In support of this latter view one finds a group of vocalisations which are quintessentially listener talk — little conversational objects such as uh-huh oh mm yeah right and mm-hm. These utterances do not have meanings in a conventional dictionary sense but are nevertheless loaded with complex and subtle information about the stance listeners take to what they are hearing information that is gleaned not only from their phonetic form but also from their complex prosodic shape and their placement and timing within the flow of talk. This book summarises eight of these objects and explores one mm in depth.
Studies in Interactional Linguistics
Jan 2001
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Current interactional linguistic research appears to be crystallizing around systematic themes which are all represented in this collection of papers. In the first section where the relation between language and interaction is viewed from the perspective of language structure several articles deal with the potential of a single structure for both turn and sequence construction revealing a play-off between planned and occasioned syntax with potentially far-reaching consequences for language development. Other articles deal with lexical expressions as resources for the conduct of interaction showing how they are heavily dependent on turn position and sequential context for their meaning potential. In the second section with a view from the perspective of the interactional order a systematic focus of interest lies on three different conversational tasks: projecting turn and turn-unit completion starting up turns with ‘non-beginnings’ and self-repairing. The cross-linguistic studies here all agree that common interactional tasks may well be carried out by quite different linguistic practices and that these practices are dependent to a certain extent on language features which are typologically distinct.