Lionel Wee

The Language of Organizational Styling

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary, book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling presents an innovative take on the notion of style.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781107054806
• ISBN-10: 110705480X
• Artikelnr.: 41607879

Autorenporträt

Lionel Wee is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the organization as a corporate actor
2. Styling: from persons to organizations
3. Enterprise culture as a master ethical regime
4. Size matters: the semiotics of big versus small businesses
5. When Peter meets Harry: the emotional labor of organizations
6. Organizational restyling
7. Styling the organizational other
8. Organizations and speakers: structure and agency in language.