Elgar introduction to organizational discourse analysis Contents: Introduction: the aim and structure of the book 1. Language and organization 2. The discourse of organizational discourse 3. The power of metaphors 4. Discourse as a map 5. Discourse as organizing 6. Discource as mask: silence emptiness and ambiguity in discourse 7. Organizational discourse analysis in practice: the case of business education discourse 8. References Index. Our knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by an invisible relationship of power that is embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. This book offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of organizational discourse analysis the approach that studies organization as a linguistic phenomenon and offers an original approach to investigate the relationship between materiality and discourse. Three original images of discourse are employed: discourse as a map discourse as organizing and discourse as a mask. These metaphors are used as cognitive tools to highlight different implications and perspectives on discourse. The book critically compares and contrasts various linguistic focused approaches to the study of organizations and proposes the use of linguistic phenomena in connection with other methodologies. One section even offers an exemplification of the proposed approach to discourse analysis presenting a map of discursive terrain which plays a central role in the reproduction of local organizational and management discourses. This rich and approachable introduction is targeted at graduate and doctoral students as well as non specialist academics who want to familiarize themselves with the organizational discourse debate