Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the o. Both conclusions are certainly demonstrated by our study.
But what Hatch and Schultz largely omit is an explanation of the mechanisms and machinations of these processes. I played football with them, I played tennis with them, I went boozing with them. 36-42), which provide a means of replicating this sort of study in other contexts.
In the case of BAE Systems, we were informed that senior managers had been debating backing away from the use of Britishness in the corporation's title, and that they regarded its merger with Marconi Electronic Systems in 1999 as an ‘opportunity to redefine our corporate identity’.
The empirical study which we report on later in the paper was conducted in three (‘British’) organizations which, despite seeing themselves as global corporate entities, continued to battle with the ongoing significance of national identity (‘Britishness’) to their everyday workings.
Opening and closing the door to diversity: A dialectical analysis of the social production of diversity. -- Teun A. van Dijk, Visiting Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Many exceptional scholars have already praised this book, and rightly so. So what we do is we play along and we find ways around it or we accommodate their preferences … . Connection, value, and growth: how employees with different national identities experience a geocentric organizational culture of a global corporation. On the one hand, we have the homogenization view of globalization (Howes, 1996) most commonly associated with Levitt (1983) and Ohmae (1990). The Discursive Construction of National Identity. Register, Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
These voices, articulating a post‐devolution politics (Pearce, 2000), have underlined a need for the BBC to provide a better platform for Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities (as well as more local ones such as Cornish or Yorkshire). In broad strokes, it uses the Vienna School of Critical Discourse Analysis method of triangulation (as per Cicourel 1969), i.e. However, many thinks have to be test in a very especialized empirical sociopolitical research. Cross-Cultural Management Studies: State of the Field in the Four Research Paradigms*. En su lugar, nuestro sistema considera aspectos como lo reciente que es la reseña y si el reseñador compró el artículo en Amazon. Moving to the present and future, the public speakers provided a kind of "locus amoenus": "a 'beautiful landscape' often mentioned in a more general sense to refer to the common national territory or serving to depict a rather abstract ideal political place where human beings live together happily, in affluence, in harmony and without conflicts" (p. 98). Try logging in through your institution for access. These kinds of statement are not, however, without their tensions and contradictions. We see more clearly in this data that the discourse effect of confronting the National Socialism past is to create an equivalence of victimhood between, for example, concentration camp inmates and soldiers (p. 212). 199-200). There is also a stray apostrophe after "academics" on p. 62. In this chapter, we briefly discuss and summarise developments since 1995. Although it is discussed in the preface to the new edition, an explanation of how this new data fits in with the overall theory would be useful, as there are some significant findings vis-a-vis the populist movement that are quite significant in the overall construction of identity. This to control thoughts and actions. Similarly, knowing that they worked for a British company was important to BAE Systems expatriates, as it provided an identifiable community to think of as ‘home’. Everyone who works for BAES has to be security cleared, with particular work restrictions placed on non‐UK nationals and especially those from non‐NATO ‘hotspots’ such as Ireland, China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Serbia. To be more specific, Foucault's middle or ‘genealogical’ period develops a disciplinary view of subject formation dependent upon the power/knowledge formations (discourses) of institutional life in modern societies.
Whilst the respondent above clearly does not accept this situation without protest (playing along with such discrimination whilst finding it privately unacceptable), he treats it as an inescapable cultural fact. It is an excellent exploration of the means with which we construct identity through discourse, focusing in on the particular case study of Austria with outstanding attention to patterns in very detailed data. Wodak, Ruth (1996). Further, there are a large number of Austrians who are not unilingual; "members of local, regional, ethnic and national minorities are subject to a far more complicated interplay of situation-specific, multiple identity constructions than are those who belong exclusively to a unilingual majority" thus resulting in multiple identities (p. 57).
We pick on two examples to illustrate, the first relating to discussions of citizenship and nationality. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism.
There are thus a number of variables present, including the degree of dissemination of the various texts to a wider audience, the relative power of the speaker over the issues in question, and the level of formality in text production, to name a few.
First, when asked what Britishness meant to them, some respondents gave positive evaluations in relation to Britain's imperial past, as the following quote illustrates: Um, British, (…) I think I've had this discussion with someone before. The "homo Austriacus" here did not have such a tight focus on nationality; "even where interviewees emphasised citizenship as a criterion for national membership and identity (which, by the way, did not occur very often), most of them pointed to linguistically, culturally and ethnically defined elements of Austrian self-perception at a later point in the interview" (pp. British Telecom is abbreviated to BT for its overseas joint ventures). Key Features:*Discourse-historical approach. These are: constructive strategies, strategies of relativisation or justification, strategies of perpetuation, strategies of transformation, and disparagement and/or destructive strategies" (pp. Through our research it became apparent that, whilst the BBC needed to assert an unambiguous ‘Britishness’ for its export markets, this would not be possible for its home audience. The impact of socio-political changes in Austria and in the European Union is also made transparent in the attempts of constructing hegemonic national identities. Above all, however, the greatest possible differences from other nations are frequently simultaneously constructed through discourses of difference, and especially difference from those foreign nations that seem to exhibit the most striking similarities" (p. 186). Thus, the rhetorical promotion of national identification and the discursive construction and reproduction of national difference on public, semi-public and semi-private levels within a nation state are analysed in much detail and illustrated with a huge amount of examples taken from many genres (speeches, focus-groups, interviews, media, and so forth).In addition to the critical discourse analysis of multiple genres accompanying various commemorative and celebratory events in 1995, this extended and revised edition is able to draw comparisons with similar events in 2005. International Journal of Intercultural Relations.
For example, "the all-encompassing construct of the 'community of victims' is becoming increasingly institutionalised and established! In broad strokes, it uses the Vienna School of Critical Discourse Analysis method of triangulation (as per Cicourel 1969), i.e. There are instances in the data set when Britishness served as a divisive and marginalizing marker of identity for BAE Systems' employees. Organizational identity is competing territory which reflects different experiences and understandings of organizational culture – and, unless one is persuaded by the most extreme claims of mainstream managerialism, it is also a virtual truism to state that organizational culture is profoundly non‐unitary terrain, a site of plural and contested meanings. Foucault's (1977)Discipline and Punish which features his oft‐cited discussion of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison design is a key reference here. Disorders of Discourse. They see these four processes as ‘working dynamically together to create, maintain and change organizational identity’ (Hatch and Schultz, 2002, p. 989), but focus more explicitly on the connections between reflecting and expressing which they believe most closely substantiate the link between image and culture. Third, our interest in the importance of race and ethnicity to articulations of Britishness was especially piqued when considering the highly personal motivations driving those in charge of designing and implementing diversity management initiatives – which, as suggested above, are intended to address the interrelationship of organizational image and organizational culture. This book has become the standard reference, and I was very glad it was translated into English. We see three contributions to the organizational identity literature emanating from this.
If we extrapolate from this, the apparent prevalence of women and minority ethnics in shaping new imaginings of Britain points to an absence of men – and English men in particular – from this project.
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*We would like to express our grateful thanks to Joanna Brewis for commenting on drafts of this paper and providing thorough and thoughtful feedback. (Ailon‐Souday and Kunda, 2003, p. 1074). customers, regulatory authorities) have of it and to the valorization of its extant cultural values. Moreover, projecting the blame entirely onto the Saudi Arabian culture not only allows BAES to escape responsibility for its own complicity in the exclusion of women from Saudi assignments, but also perpetuates stereotypes of Middle Eastern, Muslim countries. The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties. Because of the wide-ranging use of this term, a variety of meanings have been attributed to it (see Ehlich 1993, p. 145, and Ehlich 1994), which has led to considerable semantic fuzziness and terminological flexibility.
Handoyo Puji Widodo, Alistair Wood, and Deepti Gupta: ASIAN ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS: WHERE THEORY AND PRACTICE MEET, Moustapha Fall: THE IMPACT OF MOTHER TONGUE ILLITERACY ON SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, Gary Barkhuizen (ed. Our point of departure here is a certain sympathy for the relational, processual and broadly social constructionist approaches of Hatch and Schultz (2002) and Ailon‐Souday and Kunda (2003), as well as the broad discursive (psychological) tradition identified by Cornelissen (2006) and Heracleous (2006). In building up the "imagined community" of Austria, these speakers first had to confront the past of National Socialism, which they generally did by creating an equivalence of victimhood: all Austrians suffered equally through that point in history.
The book's main contribution is in its ground-breaking, richly textured methodology which can be applied to the ever changing circumstances of Austria, Europe, and indeed the entire world.
Where these types of moral discourse are absent, or less prevalent, more space seems to be created for the articulation of other dominant discourses, such as the rhetoric of globalization to be found in BAE Systems.
contrast the race/ethnicity‐based articulations of Britishness, i.e. Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare prices. "However, the interviewees scarcely ever indicated that they saw any connection to current and everyday racism and exclusionary practices.