Common sense, new sense or non‐sense? a critical discursive perspective on power in collective sensemaking
Common sense, new sense or non‐sense? a critical discursive perspective on power in collective sensemaking
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常识、新意义还是无意义？关于集体意义建构中权力的批判性话语视角
DOI：
10.1111/joms.12783
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
10.5
通讯作者：
A. Whittle
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作者：
E. Vaara;A. Whittle
尽管人们对意义建构中的权力越来越感兴趣，但我们对权力如何与语言联系在一起的理解在理论上仍然不发达。为此，我们发展了一个关于意义建构的批判性话语视角，包括一个由三部分组成的理论框架，阐明了组织意义建构中权力的话语基础。我们首先解释话语实践是如何被用来把线索转化为意义的。然后，我们概念化权力如何运作的话语实践的三个层面：话语策略，体裁和话语。这引导我们去解释作为结果的意义如何被概念化为常识、新意义或无意义。本文的主要贡献是帮助我们理解话语实践如何支撑组织意义建构中的权力运作，从而为意义建构研究增加了一个缺失的部分。我们的话语分析也推进了对语言在意义建构中的作用的理解，对意义建构研究具有方法论意义，并有助于在组织背景下推动批判性话语研究。
Despite a growing interest in power in sensemaking, our understanding of how power is linked with language is still theoretically underdeveloped. To this end, we develop a critical discursive perspective on sensemaking comprised of a three‐part theoretical framework that elucidates the discursive underpinnings of power in organisational sensemaking. We first explain how discursive practices are used to turn cues into meaning. We then conceptualize how power operates within three layers of discursive practices: discursive strategies, genres, and discourses. This leads us to explain how the resulting sense can be conceptualized as common sense, new sense, or non‐sense. The main contribution of this paper is to help us understand how discursive practices underpin the operation of power in organisational sensemaking, thus adding a missing piece to sensemaking research. Our discursive analysis also advances understanding of the role of language in sensemaking more generally, has methodological implications for sensemaking research, and helps to move critical discourse studies forward in organisational contexts.