Communicative practices in workplaces and the professions
Subtitle: cultural perspectives on the regulation of discourse and organizations
By: edited by Mark Zachry and Charlotte Thralls.
Contributors: Zachry, Mark, 1968-; Thralls, Charlotte.
Series: Baywood's technical communications series
Publisher: Baywood Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amityville, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780895033727
Subjects: Business communication.; Discourse analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: value: Using texts to manage continuity and change in an activity system / Dorothy Winsor; value: Regularized practices: genres, improvisation, and identity formation in health-care professions / Catherine F. Schryer, Lorelei Lingard, and Marlee Spafford; value: Who killed Rex? Tracing a message through three kinds of networks / Clay Spinuzzi; value: The PowerPoint presentation and its corollaries: how genres shape communicative action in organizations / JoAnne Yates and Wanda Orlikowski; value: Reason and rationalization: modes of argumentation among health-care professionals / Martin Ruef; value: Writing and relationship in academic culture / Kenneth J. Gergen; value: Shifting agency: agency, kairos, and the possibilities of social action / Carl G. Herndl and Adela C. Licona; value: Rhetoric of empowerment: genre, activity, and the distribution of capital / David Clark; value: Power as interactional accomplishment: an ethnomethodological perspective on the regulation of communicative practice in organizations / Barbara Schneider; value: Discourse and regulation: critical text analysis in workplace studies / Brenton Faber; value: The antenarrative turn in narrative studies / David M. Boje; value: Hearing discourse / Robert P. Gephart, Jr.