Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions

Bringing together prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines, "e;Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations"e; offers readers an engaging set of essays on the complicated relationship between discourse and the many institutions within which people act. Each author brings a unique theoretical perspective to conceptualizing how discourse is regulated and how it regulates when human activity is organized for such purposes as work or belonging to a profession. Together, the contributors to this collection offer a provocatively complex picture of what regulation means and the means of regulation.