Talk, Work and Institutional Order
Subtitle: Discourse in Medical, Mediation and Management Settings (Language, Power and Social Process) (Language, Power and Social Process)
Contributors: Srikant Sarangi (Editor); Celia Roberts (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9783110157239
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Philosophy of language; Sociolinguistics; Sociology; Language Arts & Disciplines; Content Analysis (Communications); Oral Communication In Business; Social interaction; Language; Oral communication; Linguistics; General; Communication in organizations
First sentence: Workplaces are held together by communicative practices.
Description: "This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to talk and its role in creating workplace practice and relationships. Analytic tools drawn from ethnography, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis illuminate a range of workplace discourses. This book will be a key text for graduate students as well as for lecturers and researchers across a range of disciplines: sociolinguistics, sociology, culture and communication studies, applied linguistics."--Jacket.