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Foreword |
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Acknowledgements |
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1 Introduction: talking `culture' at work |
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1.1 The field of workplace discourse |
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1.2 From culture to metacultural: theoretical affinities and overall aims |
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1.3 First and second order approaches to culture |
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1.4 Workplace discourse in the post-disciplinary era |
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PART I A prismatic view of culture |
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2 Culture, powerful metaphors, and coterminous notions |
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2.1 Culture as a (quantifiable) set of attributes that distinguish one group from another |
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2.3 Epistemological issues: positivism-essentialism and post-positivism |
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2.4 Influential ICC scholars associated with positivism and essentialism |
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2.5 Culture in the nation and as a nation's property: You know what [ X] are like |
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2.6 Epistemological issues: constructionism |
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2.7 The nation as an imagined community |
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2.8 Epistemological issues: critical approaches |
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26 | (2) |
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2.9 Culture as a universal |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (2) |
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2.11 Culture, identity, and cultural identity |
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2.12 Identity, categorisation processes and the politics of difference |
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2.13 Position taken in the volume expanded |
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3 Aspects of the modern workplace |
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3.1 Profiling the modern workplace |
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3.2 The organisation as a discursive construct |
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3.3 Equality: diversity in the global workplace |
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46 | (3) |
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3.4 Multilingualism at work |
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3.5 A complex linguistic landscape |
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3.6 Commodification of language and knowledge |
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3.7 From Bourdieu to the community of practice and back: the importance of doing |
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PART II Doing research in intercultural professional settings |
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4 Workplace discourse: issues of theory and method |
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4.1 Researching abstract concepts: culture, identity, and work |
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4.2 Research politics: politics of interpretation |
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4.3 Researching the workplace: critical discourse analysis/conversation analysis/interactional sociolinguistics |
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4.4 QUAN/QUAL/mixed or holistic research? |
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4.5 Framing the research problem |
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4.6 Understanding the context of the problem |
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4.7 Participatory research and appreciative enquiry (AI)2 |
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4.8 Ethnographic designs: participatory research in the workplace |
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4.9 Interpreting workplace data and the value of the participants' views |
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4.10 Repositioning fieldwork |
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4.11 Multidisciplinarity in workplace discourse research |
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5 Tricks of the trade: Q&As on doing research in the workplace |
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5.1 The importance of being pragmatic |
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5.2 `How do I get in?': issues of access and design |
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5.3 `What is my research problem and how do I come up with research questions?': problem-based enquiry unpacked |
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5.4 Where do these problems come from? |
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5.5 `Is my project more suitable for a QUAN or QUAL design?': from binaries to a holistic research perspective |
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5.6 How do I best recruit participants? |
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5.7 How do I do AI in workplace research? |
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5.8 How do I learn to `see' in ethnographic studies? |
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5.9 How do I know I am using the right toolkit? |
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5.10 How do I keep fieldnotes and observations? |
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5.11 What is the value of self-reported data? |
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5.12 How to decide on a transcription approach? |
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5.13 So I now have turned `talk' to `text', what's next? How to turn `talk' to `data' |
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111 | (1) |
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PART III Doing culture and identity in workplace interaction |
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6 Cultural identity and the politics of difference revisited |
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6.1 Metacultural discourse as a resource |
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129 | (9) |
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7 Group identity, teamwork, and meeting talk |
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138 | (8) |
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142 | (4) |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (11) |
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9.1 Hymes and Gumperz's legacy and the multidisciplinary agenda for the study of workplace talk |
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9.2 Where to from here? Engaging with complexity and holistic enquiry |
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196 | (4) |
References |
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Index |
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