Publications

Publication details [#39495]

Watson, Tony J. 2004. Managers, managism, and the tower of babble: making sense of managerial pseudojargon. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 166 : 67–82.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

jargon | manager

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses the meaning of 'Managerial pseudojargon'. Understood from a sociological perspective, the phenomenon can related to the particular modernist discourse of ‘managism.’