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    Comment les textes Ă©crivent l’organisation. Figures, ventriloquie et incarnation

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    Dans quelle mesure peut-on dire que les textes Ă©crivent l’organisation ? Cet article montre d’abord qu’une organisation s’incarne dans un agencement de figures, qu’elles soient textuelles, humaines, architecturales ou machiniques. Le monde organisationnel est donc un monde pluriel, dont le mode d’existence ne se rĂ©duit pas Ă  sa seule actualisation communicationnelle. L’agentivitĂ© textuelle doit ĂȘtre comprise comme la mĂ©diation par laquelle ces figures Ă  ontologie variable sont ventriloquisĂ©es dans l’interaction, donnant du poids (et donc de l’autoritĂ©) Ă  ce qui est mis de l’avant par les interlocuteurs humains. Si les textes Ă©crivent l’organisation, ils l’écrivent donc Ă  travers toutes les figures qu’ils font et qui les font exister, parler et agir.To what extent can we claim that texts write organizations? This paper first shows that an organization is embodied in a set of textual, human, architectural, and technological representations. The organizational world should thus be seen as plural and not reducible to its communicational enactment. Textual agency must thus be understood as the mediation by which representations with variable ontologies are ventriloquized through interaction, lending weight (and therefore authority) to what is put forward by human interlocutors. If texts write organizations, they do so by making representations exist, speak, and act

    Le cahier des charges d’un (mĂ©ta-)modĂšle constitutif de la communication : une proposition

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    Pour vraiment prĂ©tendre Ă  leur vocation de discipline, les Ă©tudes en communication doivent Ă  la fois se concentrer sur des objets communicationnels (des foyers) tout en dĂ©veloppant des approches originales (des prismes) qui les singularisent en regard d’autres disciplines plus Ă©tablies. Afin d’élaborer cette thĂšse, je mobilise, dans un premier temps, les travaux de Robert T. Craig en rappelant les enseignements principaux qu’il s’agit de tirer de son mĂ©ta-modĂšle constitutif. Dans un deuxiĂšme temps, je montre en quoi le dĂ©veloppement de ce mĂ©ta-modĂšle peut ĂȘtre traduit comme une invitation Ă  respecter un « cahier des charges » des Ă©tudes en communication, cahier dont chacun peut proposer une lecture dissidente, mais qui nous enjoint Ă  dĂ©battre des spĂ©cifications qu’un « modĂšle communicationnel de la communication » (prisme et foyer, donc) devrait avoir. Dans un troisiĂšme temps, je montre en quoi l’approche constitutive de la communication organisationnelle telle que dĂ©veloppĂ©e par l’École de MontrĂ©al rĂ©pond Ă  de telles spĂ©cifications.To be a discipline, communication studies must both focus on communicational objects while developing original approaches that distinguish them from other more established disciplines. In order to elaborate on this thesis, I propose to first mobilize Robert T. Craig’s constitutive metamodel. Second, I show to what extent the development of a metamodel can be translated as an invitation to respond to design specifications that are proper to communication studies, knowing that such specifications can certainly lead to various interpretations, but enjoin us to debate over what a ‘communication model of communication’ should look like. Third, I show why the constitutive approach to organizational communication, as developed by the Montreal School, respond to such specifications

    The Work of Communication

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    The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of capitalism, heralded by social and organizational theorists alike, increasingly focus attention on communication as both vital to the conduct of work and as imperative to organizational performance. Yet most accounts of communication in organization studies fail to understand an alternate sense of the "work of communication" in the constitution of organizations, work practices, and economies. This book responds to that lack by portraying communicative practices—as opposed to individuals, interests, technologies, structures, organizations, or institutions—as the focal units of analysis in studies of the social and organizational problems occasioned by contemporary capitalism. Rather than suggesting that there exists a canonically "correct" route communicative analyses must follow, The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism explores the value of transcending longstanding divides between symbolic and material factors in studies of working and organizing. The recognition of dramatic shifts in technological, economic, and political forces, along with deep interconnections among the myriad of factors shaping working and organizing, sows doubts about whether organization studies is up to the vital task of addressing the social problems capitalism now creates. Kuhn, Ashcraft, and Cooren argue that novel insights into those social problems are possible if we tell different stories about working and organizing. To aid authors of those stories, they develop a set of conceptual resources that they capture under the mantle of communicative relationality. These resources allow analysts to profit from burgeoning interest in notions such as sociomateriality, posthumanism, performativity, and affect. It goes on to illustrate the benefits that investigations of work and organization can realize from communicative relationality by presenting case studies that analyze (a) the becoming of an idea, from its inception to solidification, (b) the emergence of what is taken to be the "the product" in high-tech startup entrepreneurship, and (c) the branding of work (in this case, academic writing and commercial aviation) through affective economies. Taken together, the book portrays "the work of communication" as simultaneously about how work in the "new economy" revolves around communicative practice and about how communication serves as a mode of explanation with the potential to cultivate novel stories about working and organizing. Aimed at academics, researchers, and policy makers, this book’s goal is to make tangible the contributions of communication for thinking about contemporary social and organizational problems

    Introducing the Fourth Volume of “Perspectives on Process Organization Studies”

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    Abstract: Studying language and communication at work implies that we connect them to the very processes, activities, and practices that constitute organizations or organizational phenomena. We demonstrate in this chapter that language and communication at work can mean many things and that there are a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches that can be used for such analysis. Four characteristic features of such studies are highlighted: (1) interest in the communicative constitution of organization, (2) focus on discursive or communicative practices, (3) emphasis on temporal aspects and dynamics, and (4) placing language and communication in its sociomaterial context. Not all studies can focus on all these aspects, but these features are central in this nascent stream of research

    Pour une approche communicationnelle de l’individu au travail

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    L’actualitĂ© qui a accompagnĂ© la conception de ce numĂ©ro 36 de la revue Communication & Organisation montre combien le travail - a fortiori lors de pĂ©riodes de tensions organisationnelles mĂ©diatisĂ©es - est susceptible d’occuper une grande place dans la vie de l’individu : revendications et grĂšves suite Ă  des dĂ©localisations, des fermetures de sites (Molex, Continental
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), sĂ©questrations de dirigeants, destructions de l’outil de..

    Petit traitĂ© de l’amour Ă  l’usage des connards : Une approche Ă©conomique de l’amour

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    Cette note de lecture fait la recension du « Petit traitĂ© de l’amour Ă  l’usage des connards : Une approche Ă©conomique de l’amour » publiĂ© par Bertrand FaurĂ© chez l’Harmattan en 2021. François Cooren, l’auteur de cette note, montre comment FaurĂ© parvient Ă  dĂ©ployer, d’une maniĂšre assez originale, les tenants et aboutissants d’une thĂ©orie monofactorielle de l’amour, une thĂ©orie selon laquelle ce sentiment permettrait d’expliquer la plupart de nos comportements et pourrait ĂȘtre mĂȘme pris comme base de l’organisation de nos sociĂ©tĂ©s.This note reviews the “Petit traitĂ© de l'amour Ă  l'usage des connards: Une approche Ă©conomique de l'amour,” authored by Bertrand FaurĂ© and published by l'Harmattan in 2021. François Cooren, the author of this book review, shows how FaurĂ© manages to deploy, in a rather original way, the ins and outs of a monofactorial theory of love, a theory according to which this emotion would explain most of our behaviors and could even be taken as a basis for the organization of our societies

    Le cahier des charges d’un (mĂ©ta-)modĂšle constitutif de la communication : une proposition

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    Pour vraiment prĂ©tendre Ă  leur vocation de discipline, les Ă©tudes en communication doivent Ă  la fois se concentrer sur des objets communicationnels (des foyers) tout en dĂ©veloppant des approches originales (des prismes) qui les singularisent en regard d’autres disciplines plus Ă©tablies. Afin d’élaborer cette thĂšse, je mobilise, dans un premier temps, les travaux de Robert T. Craig en rappelant les enseignements principaux qu’il s’agit de tirer de son mĂ©ta-modĂšle constitutif. Dans un deuxiĂšme temps, je montre en quoi le dĂ©veloppement de ce mĂ©ta-modĂšle peut ĂȘtre traduit comme une invitation Ă  respecter un « cahier des charges » des Ă©tudes en communication, cahier dont chacun peut proposer une lecture dissidente, mais qui nous enjoint Ă  dĂ©battre des spĂ©cifications qu’un « modĂšle communicationnel de la communication » (prisme et foyer, donc) devrait avoir. Dans un troisiĂšme temps, je montre en quoi l’approche constitutive de la communication organisationnelle telle que dĂ©veloppĂ©e par l’École de MontrĂ©al rĂ©pond Ă  de telles spĂ©cifications.To be a discipline, communication studies must both focus on communicational objects while developing original approaches that distinguish them from other more established disciplines. In order to elaborate on this thesis, I propose to first mobilize Robert T. Craig’s constitutive metamodel. Second, I show to what extent the development of a metamodel can be translated as an invitation to respond to design specifications that are proper to communication studies, knowing that such specifications can certainly lead to various interpretations, but enjoin us to debate over what a ‘communication model of communication’ should look like. Third, I show why the constitutive approach to organizational communication, as developed by the Montreal School, respond to such specifications

    Actes de langage et argumentation

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    This article proposes to reconceptualize the orthodox theory of speech acts (Austin, Searle, Vanderveken) from a semio-narrative perspective (Greimas) by analyzing action as a transformation of state that mobilizes objects of mediation. From this analysis, the A. presents a new typology of illocution- ary acts based on the different objects that are mobilized («having to do,» «being able to do,» etc.) as well as the different basic actions executed (reflexive or transitive). Furthermore, he proposes a new model of the rhetorical form of perlocutionary transformations, a model that tends to demonstrate that argumentation consists in circulating a specific object of mediation that semiotics calls a «wanting to do.» Rhetoric is thus presented as a strategy which consists in making the audience accept discursive objects by creating new mediations with objects of value, a phenomenon that can be compared to a genuine contamination of values.Partant du modĂšle sĂ©mio-narratif de Greimas, cet article propose de reconceptualiser la thĂ©orie orthodoxe des actes de langage (Austin, Searle, Vanderveken) en analysant l'action comme une transformation d'Ă©tats par circulation d'objets-mĂ©diation. À partir de cette analyse, l'A. prĂ©sente une nouvelle typologie des actes illocutoires basĂ©e sur les modes d'objets vĂ©hiculĂ©s («pouvoir faire», «devoir faire», etc.) ainsi que sur les diffĂ©rentes actions de base exĂ©cutĂ©es (reflexives ou transitives). Par la suite, il propose un modĂšle explicatif de la forme rhĂ©torique des transformations perlocutoires, modĂšle qui tend Ă  dĂ©montrer que l'argumentation consiste Ă  faire vĂ©hiculer un objet-mĂ©diation bien particulier, soit le «vouloir faire». La rhĂ©torique devient dĂšs lors une stratĂ©gie qui consiste Ă  faire accepter des objets discursifs en crĂ©ant de nouvelles mĂ©diations avec des objets prĂ©alablement valorisĂ©s ou dĂ©valorisĂ©s, un phĂ©nomĂšne que l'on peut comparer Ă  une vĂ©ritable contamination des valeurs.Cooren François. Actes de langage et argumentation. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. QuatriĂšme sĂ©rie, tome 95, n°3, 1997. pp. 517-544

    Petit traitĂ© de l’amour Ă  l’usage des connards : Une approche Ă©conomique de l’amour . Note de lecture. FaurĂ©, B. (2021). Petit traitĂ© de l’amour Ă  l’usage des connards : Une approche Ă©conomique de l’amour. Paris: L’Harmattan

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    Cette note de lecture fait la recension du « Petit traitĂ© de l’amour Ă  l’usage des connards : Une approche Ă©conomique de l’amour » publiĂ© par Bertrand FaurĂ© chez l’Harmattan en 2021. François Cooren, l’auteur de cette note, montre comment FaurĂ© parvient Ă  dĂ©ployer, d’une maniĂšre assez originale, les tenants et aboutissants d’une thĂ©orie monofactorielle de l’amour, une thĂ©orie selon laquelle ce sentiment permettrait d’expliquer la plupart de nos comportements et pourrait ĂȘtre mĂȘme pris comme base de l’organisation de nos sociĂ©tĂ©s.This note reviews the “Petit traitĂ© de l'amour Ă  l'usage des connards: Une approche Ă©conomique de l'amour,” authored by Bertrand FaurĂ© and published by l'Harmattan in 2021. François Cooren, the author of this book review, shows how FaurĂ© manages to deploy, in a rather original way, the ins and outs of a monofactorial theory of love, a theory according to which this emotion would explain most of our behaviors and could even be taken as a basis for the organization of our societies
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