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Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction
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This article is published in Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.The article was published on 2013-04-25. It has received 1205 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social reality & Civil discourse.read more
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A model of information practices in accounts of everyday‐life information seeking
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Ontology in organization and management studies: a critical realist perspective
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Extreme Case Formulations: Softeners, Investment, and Doing Nonliteral
TL;DR: In this article, extreme case formulations (ECFs) were identified by Pomerantz as expressions using extreme terms such as all, none, most, every, least, absolutely, completely, and so forth, whose uses are to defend or justify a description or assessment, especially in case of challenge.
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Moaning, whinging and laughing: the subjective side of complaints
TL;DR: In this article, indirect complaint sequences are examined in a corpus of everyday domestic telephone conversations. The analysis focuses on how a speaker/complainer displays and manages their subjective investment, focusing on how they display and manage their opinions.
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Orientations to Social Constructionism: Relationally Responsive Social Constructionism and its Implications for Knowledge and Learning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors map the various interests and orientations of social constructionism as a basis for: (1) situating work in the field, (2) understanding differences in its interests and scope, and (3) mak...
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A model of information practices in accounts of everyday‐life information seeking
TL;DR: The model is derived from a constructionist discourse analysis of individuals’ accounts of everyday life information seeking and proposes that a focus on the social concept of information practices is more appropriate to everydaylife information seeking than the psychological concept of Information behaviour.
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Ontology in organization and management studies: a critical realist perspective
TL;DR: This paper used a critical realist perspective to highlight the ambiguity and error encouraged by postmodernism's commitment to a socially constructed ontology, and proposed a more fruitful alternative based on critical realism.
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Extreme Case Formulations: Softeners, Investment, and Doing Nonliteral
TL;DR: In this article, extreme case formulations (ECFs) were identified by Pomerantz as expressions using extreme terms such as all, none, most, every, least, absolutely, completely, and so forth, whose uses are to defend or justify a description or assessment, especially in case of challenge.
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“Isms” in information science: constructivism, collectivism and constructionism
TL;DR: The basic premises of three metatheories that represent important or emerging perspectives on information seeking, retrieval and knowledge formation in information science: constructivism, collectivism, and constructionism are described.
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Moaning, whinging and laughing: the subjective side of complaints
TL;DR: In this article, indirect complaint sequences are examined in a corpus of everyday domestic telephone conversations. The analysis focuses on how a speaker/complainer displays and manages their subjective investment, focusing on how they display and manage their opinions.