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Cooren, François. 2000. The Organizing Property of Communication. (Pragmatics and Beyond: New Series 65). John Benjamins. xvi + 272 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
ISBN
90 272 5079 0

Annotation

This book tackles the concept of organization by mobilizing concepts traditionally reserved to linguistics, analytical philosophy, and semiotics. Based on Algirdas Julien Greimas’ semio-narrative model of action and Jacques Derrida’s concept of "écriture", a reconceptualization of speech act theory is proposed in which communication is treated as an act of delegation where human and nonhuman agents are mobilized (texts, machines, employees, architectural elements, managers, etc.). In tune with the sociology of translation developed by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, this perspective illustrates the organizing property of communication through a process called ‘interactoriality’.

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