We illustrate the mechanisms by which speech acts structure organizational interactions. First, a comparison is established between what Greimas (1987) calls “narrative schemata” and what I propose to call “organizational schemata.” It is shown that both syntagmatic structures are organized into different phases that strictly correspond to specific speech acts (directives, commissives, accreditives, informatives, expressives). By illustrating how speech acts seem to be syntagmatically and hierarchically organized according to narrative forms, a first link between action and structure is proposed. Based on this result, a critical reinterpretation of some of Giddens’ ideas is presented, especially concerning the notion of duality of structure in its syntagmatic and paradigmatic dimensions.
2024. When Project-Based Rural Development Undermines Meaningful Activity—A Narrative Interpretation of Project Experiences in Finland. In Win or Lose in Rural Development, ► pp. 263 ff.
Marsen, Sky & Zakia Ali-Chand
2022. ‘We all have a role to play’: A comparative analysis of political speech acts on the COVID19 crisis in the South Pacific. Communication Research and Practice 8:1 ► pp. 19 ff.
Ozcan, Pinar & Kerem Gurses
2018. Playing Cat and Mouse: Contests over Regulatory Categorization of Dietary Supplements in the United States. Academy of Management Journal 61:5 ► pp. 1789 ff.
Turnage, Anna
2016. Electronic Discourse, Agency, and Organizational Change at Enron Corporation. Western Journal of Communication 80:2 ► pp. 204 ff.
Jaatinen, Miia
2015. Facilitating Organizing in Business Processes. In Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable Growth [IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 460], ► pp. 3 ff.
Ocasio, William, Jeffrey Loewenstein & Amit Nigam
2015. How Streams of Communication Reproduce and Change Institutional Logics: The Role of Categories. Academy of Management Review 40:1 ► pp. 28 ff.
Ashcraft, Karen Lee, Timothy R. Kuhn & François Cooren
2009. 1 Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication. Academy of Management Annals 3:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Ashcraft, Karen Lee, Timothy R. Kuhn & François Cooren
2009. 1 Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication. Academy of Management Annals 3:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Castor, Theresa & François Cooren
2006. Organizationsas Hybrid forms of Life. Management Communication Quarterly 19:4 ► pp. 570 ff.
Cooren, François, Fiona Thompson, Donna Canestraro & Tamás Bodor
2006. From agency to structure: Analysis of an episode in a facilitation process. Human Relations 59:4 ► pp. 533 ff.
Cooren, François & Gail T. Fairhurst
2004. Speech Timing and Spacing: The Phenomenon of Organizational Closure. Organization 11:6 ► pp. 793 ff.
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