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Overview"What is an organization? What are the building blocks that ultimately constitute this social form, so pervasive in our daily life? Like Augustine facing the problem of time, we all know what an organization is, but we seem unable to explain it. This work offers an answer by mobilizing concepts traditionally reserved for linguistics, analytical philosophy and semiotics. Based on Algirdas Julien Greimas' semio-narrative model of action and Jacques Derrida's concept of ""ecriture"", a reconceptualization of speech act theory is proposed in which communication is treated as an act of delegation where human and nonhuman agents are mobilized (texts, machines, employees, architectural elements, managers, and so on). Congruent with the last development of the sociology of translation developed by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, this perspective illustrates the organizing property of communication through a process called ""interactoriality"". Jacques Lacan used to say that the unconscious is structured like a language. This book shows that a social organization is structured like a narrative." Full Product DetailsAuthor: François Cooren (University at Albany, State University of New York) , James R. TaylorPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co Volume: 65 Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9789027250797ISBN 10: 9027250790 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 March 2000 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. Acknowledgments; 2. Preface (by Taylor, James R.); 3. Introduction; 4. PART I. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND; 5. 1. Speech Act Theory; 6. 2. Critiques Addressed toward Speech Act Theory; 7. 3. Narrativity and Speech Acts; 8. PART II. TOWARD A MODEL OF THE ORGANIZING PROPERTY OF COMMUNICATION; 9. 4. The Semiotic Model of Illocutionary Acts; 10. 5. The Semiotic Model of Perlocutionary Acts; 11. 6. The Organizing Property of Communication; 12. Conclusion; 13. Notes; 14. References; 15. Author Index; 16. Subject IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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