Writing the economy
Subtitle: activity, genre and technology in the world of banking
By: Graham Smart.
Series: Studies in language and communication; Studies in language and communication (London, England)
Publisher: Equinox
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Bank of Canada; Communication in organizations; Communication in management; Discourse analysis; Monetary policy -- Canada
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forward: persuasive economies / by Charles Bazerman; title: Introduction; title: The study; title: An overview; title: The research site; title: The methodology : interpretive ethnography; title: The theoretical orientation; title: The organization of the book; title: The monetary-policy process : the big picture; title: Knowledge-building, ideology, and rhetoric in economics; title: The economy as a cultural construct; title: Knowledge-building, policy-making, and external communications; title: Methodological reflections : foundations of interpretive ethnography; title: Genres of knowledge-building and policy-making; title: Mathematical models in disciplinary knowledge-building; title: The quarterly projection model; title: The projection exercise; title: Issues meeting, starting point meeting, projection; title: Rounds meetings, chiefs' meeting, presentation meeting; title: Management committee meeting; title: The white book; title: End-of-quarter input to policy-making; title: Benchmark for current analysis; title: Reference point for sequence of meetings; title: Friday presentation and tuesday meeting : governing; title: Council meetings inter-projection  : monitoring exercise and meeting management committee meeting; title: The "monetary-policy story"; title: Constructing the monetary-policy story; title: Variations on genre conventions; title: Methodological reflections : research questions, data collection and data analysis; title: The interplay of discourse genres and economic modelling; title: What QPM is; title: Building, selling, and enhancing QPM; title: What QPM does?; title: QPM as a tool of reasoning; title: QPM as a tool of intersubjectivity; title: QPM's influence on written and spoken discourse; title: The QPM vernacular; title: Logical rigour; title: The white book; title: Methodological reflections: engagement and detachment; title: Genres of external communications; title: The communications strategy; title: Written genres published; title: Oral genres involving participants outside bank; title: Written and oral genres behind-the-scenes; title: Key features of the genre sub-set; title: Practitioners' genre knowledge; title: The relationship to organizational change; title: The role of genres in the communications strategy; title: Coordinating intellectual work; title: Producing and communicating public information; title: Acting as a site for organizational learning; title: Methodological reflections : issues of validity, reliability and generalizability; title: Conclusion : answering the "so what"? question; title: A summary of the account; title: The bank's monetary-policy process; title: A focus on discourse genres; title: Implications for discourse theory; title: A socio-epistemic theory of organizational discourse; title: An activity-based genre theory; title: Implications for research in organizational discourse; title: Implications for teaching organizational writing; title: A few words of conclusion.