Signs of Work

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- I. Formal sign systems -- Introduction. Signs and Work -- Interorganizational Systems: Communication, Cooperation, or Governance? -- The Persistence of Systems in Organisations: Genre Analysis of Systems Decommissioning -- Object-oriented Programming and Semiotics -- Semiotical Analysis and Knowledge Analysis: The Case of Diagnosticai Work -- Morphodynamic models of communication -- II. Organisational Semiosis -- Introduction. Norms and Self-reference -- Discourse Analysis: An Approach to the Investigation of Organizational Emergence -- The Communicative Organisation -- Episodic Knowledge in System Control -- Understanding Computer Applications in Use: A Human Activity Analysis -- Signs, Information, Norms and Systems -- Index

Zusammenfassung
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.