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Miranda, Ariadne.

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Communication as Constitutive of Organization: Practicing Collaboration in an English Language Program.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Communication as Constitutive of Organization: Practicing Collaboration in an English Language Program./
Author:	Miranda, Ariadne.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13814268
ISBN:	9781392229316

Communication as Constitutive of Organization: Practicing Collaboration in an English Language Program.
Miranda, Ariadne.

Communication as Constitutive of Organization: Practicing Collaboration in an English Language Program. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 251 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation is about collaboration as an organizational practice that is communicatively constituted. Specifically, I examine how members of a team in an English language program located in a large southeastern university in the United States make sense of what they define as a collaborative work environment and materialize it in their meetings in spoken and written discourse, and in their mention and use of organizational artifacts. Though the study examines the practices of one organizational setting, the insights generated illuminate broader organizational and discourse dynamics and speak to important issues in the discipline of communication such as authority, leadership, organization sensemaking, materiality, and the role of texts in organizations.The data in this dissertation consists of spoken and written discourse. The spoken and written discourse data consist of 11 audiorecorded and transcribed meetings. To collect these data, I attended team meetings for a period of one year. I transcribed selected meeting data, and analyzed this data using a tool kit called discourse analysis. The written discourse data I examine is comprised of two documents: The Statement of Core Values and the Philosophy on Teamwork. My analysis shows how team members operating in a collaborative environment favor strategies that lead to consensus. These strategies include the use of politeness strategies such as the use of mitigating and inclusive language. Team members also use discursive strategies that demonstrate top down leadership and authority, albeit marked by indirectness. I offer practical recommendations for practice starting with the idea that collaboration does not have meaning outside of communication; collaboration means what the members of a discourse community say it means. I contend that discourse analysis can be a useful tool for organizational members as it can help them become mindful of the language they use and its constitutive force in the workplace. I also offer suggestions that can help organizations retroactively make sense of their organizational texts to ensure that they are accountable to others for what their organizations stand for.

ISBN: 9781392229316Subjects--Topical Terms:

524709
Communication.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Discourse analysis

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