Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace

Jo Angouri is a Professor at the University of Warwick, UK and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, School of Business, Helsinki, Finland.

• LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TABLES TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONSFOREWORDACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: TALKING ‘CULTURE’ AT WORK PART I: A PRISMATIC VIEW OF CULTURE CHAPTER 2: CULTURE, POWERFUL METAPHORS, AND COTERMINOUS NOTIONS CHAPTER 3: ASPECTS OF THE MODERN WORKPLACE PART II: DOING RESEARCH IN INTERCULTURAL PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS CHAPTER 4: WORKPLACE DISCOURSE: ISSUES OF THEORY AND METHOD CHAPTER 5: TRICKS OF THE TRADE: Q&As ON DOING RESEARCH IN THE WORKPLACE PART III: DOING CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN WORKPLACE INTERACTION CHAPTER 6: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE REVISITED CHAPTER 7: GROUP IDENTITY, TEAMWORK AND MEETING TALK CHAPTER 8: CASE STUDIES CHAPTER 9. CONCLUDING REMARKS REFERENCESINDEX

"This innovative and important work provides a rich resource for studying the complex, dynamic and political interface of culture, discourse and the workplace. It will inspire scholars interested in this interface by providing theoretical and methodological discussions and guidelines, as well as illuminating case studies." Miriam A. Locher, University of Basel, Switzerland"Angouri’s synthesis, theorizing and analysis of international workplace discourse will appeal to both students and seasoned researchers alike. This useful book combines the best of a critique and a vade mecum of key analytic concepts."Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong"Culture, Discourse and the Workplace offers an insightful analysis of how culture is made sense of in organizations. The discursive approach taken extends our understanding of the relationship of culture and discourse by elucidating how culture is talked into being – and its implications. The book does a great job in helping us to better understand culture talk from banal nationalism to mundane workplace conversations. A must read for discourse scholars and organization researchers alike."Eero Vaara, Aalto University School of Business, Finland