The Discursive Organisation of Action and Language in Workpractice Descriptions
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From a Systemic Semiotic perspective, instances of organisational communication (texts) and their general patterns (text types or genres) are treated as distinct from workplace action and their general patterns (action types). Administrative and Manufacturing systems demonstrate how genres and action types are discursively organised into workpractices. Different kinds of action can be identified in systems.
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