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OverviewThe aim of this text is to answer the question: what do managers in multinational companies really do during meetings? Following fieldwork in three corporations in Britain and Italy, the picture that emerges is one that challenges the widespread understanding of meetings as boring, routine events in the life of an organization. As the recordings analyzed in the book show, organizational meanings and relations come into existence through verbal interaction; these are challenged and manipulated in a constant process of sense-making in search of coherence which engages managers in their daily life. The pragmatics of pronominalization, metaphors and discourse markers, as well as thematic development, reveal the dynamics of sense-making in both English and Italian. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Francesca Bargiela (The Nottingham Trent University) , Sandra J. Harris (The Nottingham Trent University)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 44 Weight: 0.520kg ISBN: 9789027250575ISBN 10: 902725057 Pages: 295 Publication Date: 12 June 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. acknowledgements; 2. The Business of Language; 3. Research as Experience, Research as Method; 4. Sense-Making and Coherence; 5. Interpreting British Meetings; 6. Comparing and Contrasting: Cross-Linguistic and cross-Cultural; 7. Meetings as Genre; 8. Cross-Culturally Speaking: On the Edge of Communication; 9. Appendix: Questionnaire; 10. Notes; 11. References; 12. IndexReviewsThis is an important work on two counts: (1) it establishes the interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity of cross-cultural linguistics, and (2) it demonstrates that managerial science can profit from a consideration of the linguistic insights offered by the author. -- Alan S. Kaye, California State University, Fullerton, in Multilingua, 2002 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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