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| Author: | Taylor, J.R. Robichaud, D. |
| Title: | Finding the organization in the communication: discourse as action and sensemaking |
| Journal: | Organization
2004 : MAY, VOL. 11:3, p. 395-413 |
| Index terms: | Organizational communication |
| Freeterms: | Discourse Sensemaking |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Two ways in which language and discourse have entered the conception of organizing: as communicative activities of agents (conversations) and as discursively based interpretations defining agents, purposes and organizations (texts) are discussed in this paper. Conversation, framed within a material/social and a language environment, is the site where organizing occurs and where agency and text are generated. As text, in turn, the language environment frames conversations and reflects the sensemaking practices and habits of interpretation of organization members dealing with their immediate material/social purposes. A senior management meeting is used as an illustration, and the paper discusses these two levels of apprehension of the language-organization relationship and argues that a dynamic view of language and organizing must account for the processes linking both sides of the organization-language relationship. |
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