Robert Westwood & Stephen Andrew Linstead 
The Language of Organization [PDF ebook] 

The importance of communication for organizations has been an ongoing concern since management was first theorized. Yet language has tended to be viewed as simply a medium of communication – without language per se being theoretically problematized. This book enables a more critical exploration of the major theoretical positions on language and organization, explaining why language warrants a more central and considered place in organization studies.

Language and Organization explains how various perspectives on the relationship between language and organization can be represented and explored. Concerned with issues such as power, knowledge and organizational discourse, this book will provide essential new links for a proper conceptualisation and understanding of organizations.

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Language/Organization – Robert Westwood and Stephen Linstead

Introduction

PART ONE: LANGUAGE, ORGANIZATION AND ACTION

Talking Sense – David S Richards

Ethnomethodology, Postmodern and Practical Action

Language That Organizes – Ian Lennie

Plans and Lists

The Language of Strategy – Simon Lilley

PART TWO: METAPHORS OF ORGANIZATION

The Scripted Organization – Dan K[um]arreman

Dramaturgy from Burke to Baudrillard

Mining for Meaning – Tojo Joseph Thatchenkery

Reading Organizations using Hermeneutic Philosophy

Reclaiming Story in Organization – David M Boje, Rossana C Alvarez and Bruce Schooling

Narratologies and Action Sciences

PART THREE: LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE AND POWER

The Prison-House of Language – Graham Sewell

The Penitential Discourse of Organizational Power

After Knowledge – Rolland Munro

The Language of Information

Rhetoric and Organizational Control – Stephen Linstead

A Framework for Analysis

PART FOUR: ORGANIZING SILENCE

Appropriating the Other in the Discourses of Comparative Management – Robert Westwood

Telling It Like It Is? – Joanna Brewis

Gender, Language and Organizational Theory

PART FIVE: WRITING, THEORY AND BEYOND

The Language of Organization Theory – Robert Chia and Ian King

Meaning beyond Language – Stephen Linstead and Robert Westwood

Monstrous Openings

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My background includes undergraduate and Masters degrees in English Literature from the universities of Keele and Leeds , and a further Masters in Organization Development and Ph D from what is now Sheffield Hallam University . More recently I was awarded a D.LItt from Durham University . I have held Chairs in Wollongong (NSW), Sunderland . Essex and Durham before moving to York . I also spent 2 years as a Visting Scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.