Download or read book Elgar Introduction to Organizational Discourse Analysis written by Marco Berti and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by invisible relationship of power that are embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. The notion of discourse has been used by many authors to describe and study these phenomena, and this volume offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of critical organizational discourse analysis. Targeted at graduate and doctoral students, and at non-specialist academic who need to familiarize with the academic debate on the subject, the book harnesses the power of metaphors to describe the many faces of discourse.