The organizing property of communication / Francois Cooren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooren, François.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 65.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 65

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Oral communication--Philosophy.

Oral communication.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 book brings an original answer by mobilizing concepts traditionally reserved to linguistics, analytical philosophy, and semiotics. Based on Algirdas Julien Greimas' semio-narrative model of action and Jacques Derrida's concept of écriture, 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, etc.). Perfectly 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.

Contents:

THE ORGANIZING PROPERTY OF COMMUNICATION

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Speech Act Theory

Chapter 2. Critiques Addressed Toward Speech Act Theory

Chapter 3. Narrativity and Speech Acts

Chapter 4. A Semiotic Model of the Illocutionary Act

Chapter 5. The Semiotic Model of Perlocutionary Acts

Chapter 6. The Organizing Property of Communication

Conclusion

Notes

References

Author Index

Subject Index

PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Universite de Montreal, 1995).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-253) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612163241

9781282163249

1282163248

9789027299048

9027299048

OCLC:

70729697