3th WU Symposium on International Business Communication
DISCOURSE AND ORGANIZATIONS: MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
March 24-26, 2010
WU Vienna, Building UZA 1, 2nd floor, Main Conference Room
Text and talk are instrumental in building and sustaining organizations, both in structural terms and through day-to-day management. In spite of the "linguistic turn" of organizational studies, and widespread acceptance of its constructivist underpinnings, there is still remarkably little dialogue, and even less proactive cooperation, between linguists and those approaching organization from different perspectives. There may be no hostility, but peaceful co-existence is, in itself, generally not sufficient to create fruitful synergies.
The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for such dialogue and debate by bringing together scholars from different disciplines who share an interest in the discourse in and about organization(s). Invited contributors will be free to choose their own topic, as long as their papers fit broadly within the symposium title and provide sufficient openings for cross-disciplinary exchange. We are also planning to organize the symposium along the lines of a speaker-and-discussant format, and would hope that most speakers are also prepared to fill the role of discussant for one of their colleagues' papers.
As far as paper presentations are concerned, the symposium is by invitation only, but attendance will be open to all WU faculty and, space permitting, to participants from other universities.
Language: English
Program
Wednesday, 24 March
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Welcome & registration |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Welcome: Wolfgang Obenaus, Head of the Department of Foreign Language Business Communication Opening: Barbara Sporn, Vice-Rector |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Opening: Gerlinde Mautner (WU Vienna), Head of the Institute for English Business Communication |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Cliff Oswick (Queen Mary, University of London): From Critical Discourse Analysis to Creative Discourse Analysis: Of mutuality, merged methodologies and the study of organizations |
| 17:45 - 18:45 | Veronika Koller (Lancaster University): Identity, image, impression: Corporate self-presentation and public reactions |
| 18:45 | Reception |
Thursday, 25 March
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Welcome & registration |
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Elena Trubina (University of Ekaterinburg): "I won't allow disgrace for our region to happen!": Organizational discourse in the public sector |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Florentine Maier & Michael Meyer (WU Vienna): Discourses of non-profit organization and their implications for non-profit governance |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Vladimir Karasik (University of Volgograd): Institutional Discourse: Types and norms |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Nick Llewellyn (Warwick Business School, University of Warwick): Discourse, communication and multimodality |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Susan Meriläinen (University of Lapland) & Janne Tienari (Aalto University): Talking about bodies in business: Headhunters on managerial candidates |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Gina Poncini (University of Milan): Discourse, knowledge creation and communities: A view from Italy |
| 19:00 | Informal get-together |
Friday, 26 March
| 9:00-10:00 | Jiři Nekvapil & Tamah Sherman (Charles University Prague): Language ideologies and multilingual practices in multinational companies |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Florian Menz (University of Vienna): Constructing unity and identity in flexible and uncertain environments: a case of internal business communication |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Brunch |
| 11:45 - 12:45 | Judy Delin (University of Reading): Consulting on Tone of Voice: Experiences of a linguist turned practitioner |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Closing Session |
| Organizers: | Gerlinde Mautner (Institute for English Business Communiation) |
| Martin Stegu (Institute for Romance Languages) | |
| Renate Rathmayr (Institute for Slavic Languages) | |
| Elisabeth Peters (Department of Foreign Language Business Communication) |
Contact:
Elisabeth Peters
elisabeth.peters@wu.ac.at
+431 31336 5117