Displaying Competence in Organizations Discourse Perspectives

by Heynderickx, Priscilla; Pelsmaekers, Katja; Rollo, Craig; Van Hout, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780230282636
• ISBN10: 0230282636
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Competence encompasses or overlaps with notions of efficiency, success, accountability, excellence and self-justification. This collection explores ways in which individuals, teams or groups in organizations discursively present themselves as competent to perform tasks or functions, possibly at a superior level.

Author Biography

Katja Pelsmaekers and Craig Rollo teach in the English section of the Department of international Business Communication at the University of Antwerp, Belgium Katja's research interests lie in the fields of discourse analysis in organizational settings, situated language use and multilingual comprehension. Craig's research interests are in the fields of discourse analysis in organizational settings, language contact (particularly in Central Europe) and in English for specific purposes. Tom Van Hout is Assistant Professor in the Humanities Faculty at Leiden University, Netherlands, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium He specializes in institutional communication, in particular]ournalism studies Priscilla Heynderickx teaches Dutch and business communication at the Department of Applied Language Studies of Lessius University College Antwerp, Belgium and is affiliated researcher of K.U. Leuven. She ts chief editor of AdRem, a journal of business communication (www.vvvz be/ AdRem) Her research focuses on business communication.

Table of Contents

List Of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Discourse Perspectives on Competence in Organizations; T.Van Hout, K.Pelsmaekers, P.Heynderickx& C.Rollo
‘Taking Ownership’: Language and Ethnicity in the Job Interview; C.Roberts
Equality for Those Who are Competent. Discourses on Competencies, Diversity and Equality in the Public Sector; S.Scheepers
The Language of Power. An Analysis of a Corpus of CEO Letters; B.Hendriks& M.Van Mulken
The Successful 2008 Presidential Candidate: How Political Weblogs Have Contributed in Shaping the American Electorate’s Preferences; G.Riboni
The Representation of Competence in Newspaper Interviews. A Linguistic-Pragmatic Discourse Analysis of the (Self-)Representation of Journalists and Politicians in Written Interviews; M.Temmerman
Competence on Display: Crafting Stories During Newsroom Editorial Conferences; T.Van Hout& E.Van Praet
Interpreting Competence: Nursing Staff and Family Members as Ad-Hoc Interpreters in Hospitals; B.Pawlack
The Discursive Construal of Purpose by Means of Competence in German and English Corporate Mission Statements; B.Meex& H.Verplaetse
‘Adam Smith for Diocesan Missioner’: Legitimation in Religious Discourse; G.Mautner
References
Index