TY - CHAP
T1 - Organizational context and the discursive construction of organizing
AU - Sillince, J.A.A.
N1 - Also published in Management Communication Quarterly (2007), 20 (4), pp363-394. http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/24688/ (This is a variant record)
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Organizational discourse has very little meaning outside its context. To understand any discourse's meaning, we must theorize about both the discourse's possibility and the circumstances of its constitution. Otherwise, we abstract text, sundering it from context. The present article asks what is context and what types of discourse structures and discourse strategies construct context? The author develops four distinct dimensions of context: when, where, as whom, and why people speak. To collaboratively construct meaning, an organization's members use several discursive means whereby a discourse from one context can be inserted, reframed, appropriated, and recursively placed into a discourse from another context-to achieve cross-contextual organizing of their accounts. Through such cross-contextual discursive work, members strive to balance these four (sometimes conflicting) contextual dimensions.
AB - Organizational discourse has very little meaning outside its context. To understand any discourse's meaning, we must theorize about both the discourse's possibility and the circumstances of its constitution. Otherwise, we abstract text, sundering it from context. The present article asks what is context and what types of discourse structures and discourse strategies construct context? The author develops four distinct dimensions of context: when, where, as whom, and why people speak. To collaboratively construct meaning, an organization's members use several discursive means whereby a discourse from one context can be inserted, reframed, appropriated, and recursively placed into a discourse from another context-to achieve cross-contextual organizing of their accounts. Through such cross-contextual discursive work, members strive to balance these four (sometimes conflicting) contextual dimensions.
KW - organization studies
KW - discourse
KW - context
KW - organizing
KW - structuration
KW - discourse analysis
KW - control
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UR - http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/24688/
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1848608689
VL - 1
T3 - SAGE Library in Business and Management
SP - 349
EP - 378
BT - Sage Directions in Organization Studies
A2 - Clegg, S.
CY - London
ER -