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With the parallel expansion of both leadership research and the use of ventriloquism within communication studies, this book addresses the lack of connection between the two, arguing that ventriloquial analyses can add significant insights to leadership research and that leadership research can be a fruitful avenue of inquiry. Focusing on the ventriloquial approach to organising originating from the Montreal School, which emphasizes the analyses of “actions through which someone or something makes someone or something else say or do things”, the book offers a new and exciting way of looking at the materiality of leadership. Drawing on ventriloquial analyses of naturally-occurring workplace interaction; interviews with key organisational players; and training sessions about leadership, the author posits that other-than-human actants affect many areas of leadership and organisational communication. Offering fresh insight into leadership practice, this book will be an essential read for scholars and students of organisational communication, leadership, and management.

Leadership --- Communication in organizations

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This book showcases various methodological approaches to the analysis of organizational talk and text. Arguing that organizations are discursive constructions that are communicatively constituted, the authors use the analysis of transcripts of audio-recordings of naturally-occurring workplace talk and authentic written texts to demonstrate what applied linguistics has to offer scholarly research into organizations, as well as management practice and training. The authors first discuss the theoretical underpinnings of discursive approaches to the role language in the communicative constitution of organization, and then each chapter focuses on one particular analytical approach. The chapters cover: conversation analysis; membership categorization analysis; positioning theory; ventriloquism; metaphor analysis; and metadiscourse analysis and computer-mediated discourse analysis. Consequently, this interdisciplinary work presents a number of methods that allow researchers unfamiliar with fine-grained linguistic analyses of naturally-occurring talk and text to explore ways of adding to their repertoire of research skills. Erika Darics is an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of applied linguistics, critical discourse analysis and organisational communication. She is particularly interested in promoting language awareness and the importance of linguistic-oriented research across disciplinary boundaries. She is currently the vice president of the Association for Business Communication and one of the co-hosts of the Words and Actions podcast. Jonathan Clifton is an associate professor at the Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, in Valenciennes, France. Using various methodologies such as conversation analysis, membership categorization analysis and narrative analysis, his research is cross-disciplinary in nature focusing on both language use and issues of interest to organisational scholars, notably leadership.

Industrial organization. --- Management. --- Personnel management. --- Communication in organizations. --- Organization. --- Human Resource Management. --- Organizational and Strategic Communication. --- Organizational communication --- Organization --- Corporations --- Employment management --- Human resource management --- Human resources management --- Manpower utilization --- Personnel administration --- Management --- Public administration --- Employees --- Employment practices liability insurance --- Supervision of employees --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Industries --- Industrial concentration --- Industrial management --- Industrial sociology --- Personnel management

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Fascination with leadership and its relation to world events seems to be ever growing, and leadership narratives are a key element through which leader identities are constructed. Contemporary research into leadership tends to recycle the same old myths of the heroic white male leader. By looking at stories told by leaders in Australasia, Asia, North America, the Middle East, and Africa, this book explores different aspects of leadership narratives. The Language of Leadership Narratives brings linguistics and leadership research together, showcasing different analytical and methodological approaches and enabling a more critical approach. Each chapter focuses on a specific area of leadership research, from dark leadership to gendered leadership. This book introduces the advantages of analysing leadership narratives as social practice and discusses some of the main themes in contemporary leadership research. This volume is key reading for scholars and students of linguistics, communication studies, and business studies, and for those working in business and intercultural communication in the workplace.

Communication in management. --- Leadership. --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Communication in industry --- Managerial communication --- Management --- Leadership --- Communication in management