New Publication: Conversational use of genres in managerial meetings
28.07.2011
Dr. Pekka Pälli, who works as a senior lecturer at Aalto ECON Department of communication published an article with Esa Lehtinen in Scandinavian Journal of Management. Based on empirical analysis, they argue in their article that genres are used as resources for joint understanding and for conducting particular conversational actions in meetings.
Conversational use of genres in managerial meetings
Esa Lehtinen, University of Vaasa, Faculty of Philosophy, Modern Finnish and Translation
Pekka Pälli, Aalto University School of Economics, Department of Communication
This article addresses the question of how the concept of genre, defined as a linguistically realized activity type, can be applied to the study of organizational discourse. In particular, the authors show how and for what practical purposes managers invoke genres in meetings. The data of the study consist of video-recorded company-internal meetings and the methodology is based on ethnomethodological conversation analysis. In the empirical analysis the authors show how genres are used as resources for joint understanding and for conducting a particular conversational action in a meeting, namely proposing a solution to a problem. The study highlights the importance of genre knowledge in managerial meetings and the practical nature of this knowledge.
Suggested reference:
Lehtinen, E., & Pälli, P. Conversational use of genres in managerial meetings. Scandinavian Journal of Management (2011), doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2011.06.003
Available onlie at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scaman.2011.06.003
For more information: pekka.palli [at] aalto [dot] fi (pekka.palli(at)aalto.fi)