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Publication details [#14495]

Iedema, Rick A.M. 1999. Formalizing organizational meaning. Discourse & Society 10 (1) : 49–65.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bureaucratese | formality | recontextualization

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article looks at how organizational formalization - and hence interactional closure - follows from recontextualization processes of bureaucratic meaning. These processes are described on the basis of stakeholders' meetings concerning the renovation of a hospital.