Journal article
Language and institutional reality: Reply and response
Organization Studies, Vol.8(4), pp.363-373
1987
Abstract
This paper is written in the form of a partial response to an earlier paper in Organization Studies, Clegg's 'The language of power and the power of language'. It argues that Clegg's conflation of realism with materialism, on the one hand, and relativism with idealism, on the other, leads him to neglect some very important sociological sources. In particular, the present paper attemps to rescue ethnomethodology (and to a lesser extent Foucauldian discourse analysis) from Clegg's charges. It does so by arguing for a counter-realist materialism in sociological theory. There is a partial re-analysis of Clegg's main data fragment taken from a transcript of talk on a building site.
Details
- Title
- Language and institutional reality: Reply and response
- Authors/Creators
- A.W. McHoul (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Organization Studies, Vol.8(4), pp.363-373
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Identifiers
- 991005544103407891
- Copyright
- 1987 EGOS
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Media, Communication and Culture
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Citation topics
- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.69 Language & Linguistics
- 6.69.610 Discourse Pragmatics
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- Management
- ESI research areas
- Economics & Business