Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions : Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations

Intro -- COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICES IN WORKPLACES AND THE PROFESSIONS: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Regulation and Communicative Practices -- PART I: Understanding Regulative Processes, Practices, and Effects -- CHAPTER 1 Using Texts to Manage Continuity and Change in an Activity System -- CHAPTER 2 Regularized Practices: Genres, Improvisation, and Identity Formation in Health-Care Professions -- CHAPTER 3 Who Killed Rex? Tracing a Message through Three Kinds of Networks -- CHAPTER 4 The PowerPoint Presentation and Its Corollaries: How Genres Shape Communicative Action in Organizations -- CHAPTER 5 Reason and Rationalization: Modes of Argumentation Among Health-Care Professionals -- CHAPTER 6 Writing and Relationship in Academic Culture -- PART II: Regulation and the Possibilities of Action: Agency, Empowerment, and Power -- CHAPTER 7 Shifting Agency: Agency, Kairos, and the Possibilities of Social Action -- CHAPTER 8 Rhetoric of Empowerment: Genre, Activity, and the Distribution of Capital -- CHAPTER 9 Power as Interactional Accomplishment: An Ethnomethodological Perspective on the Regulation of Communicative Practice in Organizations -- PART III: Critical Research Perspectives -- CHAPTER 10 Discourse and Regulation: Critical Text Analysis and Workplace Studies -- CHAPTER 11 The Antenarrative Turn in Narrative Studies -- CHAPTER 12 Hearing Discourse -- Contributors -- Index -- Selected Titles from Baywood's Technical Communications Series -- Back Cover.