Publications
Publication details [#11884]
Taylor, James R. and François Cooren. 1997. What Makes Communication 'Organizational'?: How the Many Voices of Collectivity Become the One Voice of an Organization. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (4) : 409–438. 30 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is contended that organizational communication involves the expression of a collective agency in a specific actor that is identified by the community as such. Two opposing theories of action-in-speech are analyzed and are traced back to speech act theory.