Managing language : the discourse of corporate meetings / Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Sandra J. Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bargiela-Chiappini, Francesca.

Contributor:

Harris, Sandra, 1938-

Series:

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in organizations.

Corporate meetings.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book attempts 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 organisation. As the recordings analysed in the book show, organisational 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 wo

Contents:

MANAGING LANGUAGE THE DISCOURSE OF CORPORATE MEETINGS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; PART ONE; Chapter 1. The Business of Language; Chapter 2. Research as Experience, Research as Method; Chapter 3. Sense-Making and Coherence in Organisations; Chapter 4. Interpreting Italian Meetings; Chapter 5. Interpreting British Meetings; PART TWO; Chapter 6. Comparing and Contrasting: Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural; Chapter 7. Meetings as Genre; Chapter 8. Cross-Culturally SpeakingOn the Edge of Communication (Dedicated to our Managers)

APPENDIX: QuestionnaireNotes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613222039

1-283-22203-5

90-272-8266-8

OCLC:

743694161