14.2445, Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Iedema

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Date:  Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:54:01 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization: Iedema

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Date:  Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:54:01 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization: Iedema

Title: Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization
Series Title: Document Design Companion Series 5

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DDCS_5

Author: Rick  Iedema, The University of New South Wales

Hardback: ISBN: 1588114139, Pages: xiv, 234 pp., Price: USD 68.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027232059, Pages: xiv, 234 pp., Price: EUR 68.00

Abstract:

This book considers the discourses that come into play in
organizational change. The book outlines the tensions that arise for
people having to enact change, and analyzes the ways in which they
position themselves in changing organizational environments. The book
takes a social semiotic perspective on discourse, organization and
change. Here, discourse encompasses not only the multi-modal resources
that people mobilize in organizational (inter)action, but also the
practices and transformative dynamics afforded by those resources. The
organizational changes highlighted in the book revolve around three
dimensions of work that are increasingly coming to the fore:
participation, boundary-spanning and knowledging. These dimensions are
explored through case studies, including a health planning project, an
initiative to standardize work practices, and the tension between
paper-based and IT-based reporting. The book addresses the relevance
of this discourse perspective to organizational research more broadly,
by investigating organization as a dynamic of 'resemiotizations'.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  vii
Preface  ix
1. The discourses of post-bureaucratic organization  1-25
2. Approaches to studying organizational discourse  27-56
3. A social semiotic view of discourse and organization  57-81
4. Organizational discourse: A historical view  83-110
5. Negotiating organization: A case of symbolic violence  111-132
6. The dynamics of post-bureaucratic interaction: Resemiotization
   133-147
7. Recording the organization  149-173
8. 'Pathwaying' as post-bureaucratic ethos  175-192
9. Conclusion: Post-bureaucratic organization  193-204
References  205-225
Author index  227-230
Subject index  231-234

Lingfield(s):   Discourse Analysis
		Pragmatics

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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