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Discourse analysis
About: Discourse analysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16055 publications have been published within this topic receiving 515384 citations. The topic is also known as: DA & discourse studies.
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TL;DR: This article calls for more critical reflexivity in how both scholars and practitioners in library and information science construct the identities of people as information seekers and users.
Abstract: The theoretical turn in library and information science to analyze the "inner worlds of the user" is critically evaluated looking for hidden ideas and institutional implications. The evaluation is done through a discourse analytic reading of how the identities of users and librarians are constructed in one much-cited user-centered text. The reading suggests that these two main actors - users and librarians - are positioned in an unequal power relationship. Librarians are constructed in the discourse as mind-reading experts and information search controllers. Users are constructed as uncertain laypersons, often misinterpreting their feelings and thoughts during information search processes. This article calls for more critical reflexivity in how both scholars and practitioners in library and information science construct the identities of people as information seekers and users.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change and identify five key contributions of discourse analytic approaches: reveal the important role of discourse in the social construction of organizational change; demonstrate how the meaning attached to organizational change initiatives comes about as a result of a discursive process of negotiation among key actors; show that the discourses of change should be regarded as intertextual; provide a valuable multi-disciplinary perspective on change; and exhibit a capacity, to generate fresh insights into a wide variety of organizational changes related issues.
Abstract: Purpose – This paper aims to examine the contribution that discourse analysis can make to understanding organizational change.Design/methodology/approach – It identifies five key contributions. Discourse analytic approaches: reveal the important role of discourse in the social construction of organizational change; demonstrate how the meaning attached to organizational change initiatives comes about as a result of a discursive process of negotiation among key actors; show that the discourses of change should be regarded as intertextual; provide a valuable multi‐disciplinary perspective on change; and exhibit a capacity, to generate fresh insights into a wide variety of organizational change related issues.Findings – To illustrate these contributions the paper examines the five empirical studies included in this special issue. It discusses the potential for future discursive studies of organizational change phenomena and the implications of this for the field of organizational change more generally.Origina...
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TL;DR: The authors explored how resistance to diversity initiatives is expressed by both dominant and subordinated groups in a UK police force and argued that resistance is better thought of as a discursive resource that can be drawn upon to justify or account for one's own organizational experiences.
Abstract: The literature on diversity management has tended to obfuscate some of the theoretical and methodological shortcomings associated with research in this area. Specifically, the literature tends to make a number of rather naive assumptions about the experiences and aspirations of disadvantaged groups. This paper seeks to problematize the universalist and partisan tendencies that typify much of the diversity literature by focusing on the issue of ‘resistance’. Using a form of discourse analysis informed by Foucauldian principles, the paper explores how ‘resistance’ to diversity initiatives is expressed by both ‘dominant’ and ‘subordinated’ groups in a UK police force. It is argued that ‘resistance’ is better thought of as a discursive resource that can be drawn upon to justify or account for one’s own organizational experiences and, in turn, the need to both justify and account for one’s experiences is located in broader discursive fields that reproduce dominant ideologies of liberal democracies. The theoretical implications of this position are discussed and a case is presented for more critical and theoretical approaches in the diversity management literature.
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TL;DR: The pervasiveness of agonism, that is, ritualized adversativeness, in contemporary western academic discourse is the source of both obfuscation of knowledge and personal suffering in academia.
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TL;DR: One of the main aims of this analysis is to illustrate how, through the everyday nature of such debates, health remains an intrinsically moral phenomenon.
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