Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions

Bringing together prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines, "Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations" offers readers an engaging set of essays on the complicated relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act. Each author brings a unique theoretical perspective to conceptualizing how discourse is regulated and how it regulates when human activity is organized for such purposes as work or belonging to a profession. Together, the contributors to this collection offer a provocatively complex picture of what regulation means and the means of regulation. <p>Part I: Understanding Regulative Processes, Practices, and Effects<br>Chapter 1<br>Using Texts to Manage Continuity and Change in an Activity System <i>Dorothy Winsor</i><br>Chapter 2<br>Regularized Practices: Genres, Improvisation, and Identity Formation in Health-Care Professions <i>Catherine F. Schryer, Lorelei Lingard, and Marlee Spafford </i><br>Chapter 3<br>Who Killed Rex? Tracing a Message Through Three Kinds of Networks <i>Clay Spinuzzi</i><br>Chapter 4<br>The PowerPoint Presentation and Its Corollaries: How Genres Shape Communicative Action in Organizations <i>JoAnne Yates and Wanda Orlikowski</i><br>Chapter 5<br>Reason and Rationalization: Modes of Argumentation among Health-Care Professionals <i>Martin Ruef</i><br>Chapter 6<br>Writing and Relationship in Academic Culture <i>Kenneth J. Gergen</i><br><br><b>Part II: Regulation and the Possibilities of Action: Agency, Empowerment, and Power</b><br>Chapter 7<br>Shifting Agency: Agency, <i>Kairos</i>, and the Possibilities of Social Action <i>Carl G. Herndl and Adela C. Licona</i><br>Chapter 8<br>Rhetoric of Empowerment: Genre, Activity, and the Distribution of Capital<i> David Clark</i><br>Chapter 9<br>Power as Interactional Accomplishment: An Ethnomethodological Perspective on the Regulation of Communicative Practice in Organizations <i>Barbara Schneider</i><br><br><b>Part III: Critical Research Perspectives</b><br>Chapter 10<br>Discourse and Regulation: Critical Text Analysis in Workplace Studies <i>Brenton Faber</i><br>Chapter 11<br>The Antenarrative Turn in Narrative Studies <i>David M. Boje</i><br>Chapter 12<br>Hearing Discourse<i> Robert P. Gephart, Jr.</i></p>