Communication and Theatre 4/514 Issues in Organizational Communication Emergent Organizing
What is a laminated discourse?
If communication is bi-dimensional, what are the dimensions? Sensemaking Criticism
One of the most important things you can learn to appreciate is that it is almost always both/and instead of either/or. What does this mean?
What is the difference between a lived world and an interpreted world? How about the difference between conversation (site) and text (surface)?
Resources available = History Language
Constraints = Rules of interaction (to belong) Rules of language (to participate)
Narrativization = the sanctioned communication as to what the organization is.
Narrative (talk about organizing) = Represents organizational reality Instantiates organizational reality
How might we self organize?
Conversation = the total of languaging. What does that mean? All informal and formal communication is available for interpretation. What is a spectrum of communication?
What is text? What we formalize from our conversation.
People enter conversation with: Real (lived experience; real) Symbolic (the used language)
Thus, through experience and language we co-construct organizing.
To converse we need to: Talk understandably Follow conversational rules
In sum, communication is: Contextual Situated Occasional Grounded Iterative Cumulative
What is the difference between a vehicle and a destination?
What is the difference between a reason for an occurrence and a cause of it?
Know Should Would Could A large amount of additional freight (meaning) is carried in a sentence.
Our conversations involve both action (pragmatic) and intention (cognitive).
Stories are contests of meaning, succeeding or failing, in the context of opposition. So, we have stories and anti-stories; protagonists and antagonists.
local situation individual textsassemble texts community text The point of all of this is to conceptualize the emergence of a self organizing community authentizing, voicing, publication conversation thought co-creation, convergence
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