Constructing Meaning in Accounting : Towards a Multimodal Perspective.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quarchioni, Sonia.

Series:

Studi e ricerche di economia aziendale ; 52

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Communication in accounting.

Accounting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Torino : Giappichelli, 2025.

Summary:

This book delves into the intersection of accounting and organizational studies, emphasizing the multimodal construction of meaning within accounting practices. Sonia Quarchioni explores diverse semiotic modes—numerical, visual, verbal, and spatial—and their interplay in shaping accounting knowledge and organizational realities. The work advocates for a multimodal perspective in accounting research, challenging traditional monomodal approaches. It offers theoretical insights and practical frameworks for understanding the performative, rhetorical, and symbolic dimensions of accounting practices. The book is intended for academics, researchers, and professionals in accounting and organizational studies seeking to expand their understanding of how accounting operates within complex communicative and organizational contexts. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Occhiello

Summary

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Multimodality in organizations

1.1. Semiotic modes and meaning-making

1.2. Multimodal legitimation and rhetoric

1.3. Expanding semiotic modes

1.4. Towards multimodal accounting research

References

Chapter 2. The power of accounting numbers

2.1. Accounting as social and institutional practice

2.2. Accounting inscriptions

2.3. Processes of fabrication and network formation

2.4. Conclusion

Chapter 3. Visuals in accounting research

3.1. Accounting and visual language

3.2. Visuals as symbolic meanings

3.3. The persuasive role of visuals

3.4. Visuals and performative power

3.5. Experimental studies

3.6. Visual elicitation

3.7. Conclusion

Chapter 4. Accounting and the power of words

4.1. Language in accounting research

4.2. Corporate reports: discourses and written texts

4.3. Narratives and stories

4.4. Language in use: accounting talk

4.5. Conclusion

Chapter 5. Accounting and spatiality

5.1. The spatial turn

5.2. Research on organizational space

5.3. Accounting and space: acting at a distance

5.4. Accounting and the calculable space

5.5. Accounting and workspace

5.6. Conclusion

Chapter 6. Multimodality in accounting: the roadahead

6.1. Advancing the multimodal agenda

6.2. Exploring the interaction of expanded modes inaccounting

6.3. Charting new paths for multimodal methods

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Other Format:

Print version: Quarchioni, Sonia Constructing Meaning in Accounting

ISBN:

9791221163797

OCLC:

1527724495