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Pedagogy and the 'linguistic turn': developing understanding through semiotics

journal contribution
posted on 2009-06-24, 13:15 authored by Gill Musson, Laurie Cohen, Susanne Tietze
The appropriation of the ‘linguistic’ turn and the application of social constructionist ideas for research projects situated in organizational contexts and concerned with managerial work has enriched the field's understanding of the complexities of such settings and drawn attention to their processual nature. Using the unifying theory of a semiotic framework, this article argues for a similar appropriation of the ‘linguistic turn’ in teaching projects, to give students of management a theoretically informed access to, and understanding of, this growing literature. Employing the understanding and vocabulary of semiotics as applied to metaphor, discourse and stories, it is demonstrated how semiotic principles can be used to explore the mechanics of meaning making and expose the taken for granted assumptions inherent in this process.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Citation

MUSSON, G., COHEN, L. and TIETZE, S., 2007. Pedagogy and the 'linguistic turn': developing understanding through semiotics. Management Learning, 38 (1), pp. 45-60

Publisher

© Sage

Version

  • NA (Not Applicable or Unknown)

Publication date

2007

Notes

This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Management Learning [© Sage]. The definitive version is available at: http://mlq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/1/45

ISSN

1350-5076

Language

  • en