This paper presents a reflection on the process of doing critical discourse research. Examples from a current project on the discursive construction of ‘older worker’ identity are used to illustrate how major challenges inherent in undertaking discourse research can be addressed. These involved initial justifications of discourse theory as a research framework, research design and the selection...

The last fifteen years has seen a proliferation of studies and the emergence of a promising field of research in what could be called disciplinary discourse studies or the study of discourse and disciplinarity, using a range of more or less linguistic theoretical tools (register analysis, genre analysis, various varieties of discourse analysis, socio-cultural theory, social semiotics, and, more...

In this paper, we explore a number of techniques for two-dimensional visualisation of temporal social network data, with the goal of providing feedback on the group dynamics of government planning workshops. These techniques include the use of position and colour for displaying temporal information, as in colour-coded bar charts or sequence diagrams. While it is possible to display temporal inf...

A B S T R AC T Existing approaches to organizational discourse, which we label as ‘managerialist’, ‘interpretive’ and ‘critical’, either privilege agency at the expense of structure or the other way around. This tension reflects that between approaches to discourse in the social sciences more generally but is sharper in the organizational context, where discourse is typically temporally and con...

Introduction From controversial beginnings, the term Web 2.0 has become associated with a fairly well-defined set of popular Web-based platforms characterized by social interaction and user-generated content. Most of the content on such sites is human discourse, via text, audio, video, and/or static images. It is therefore, in principle, of theoretical and practical interest to scholars of comp...

Introduction This paper makes a presentation of the role of innovation discourse in the Colombian policymaking and government discourse in the last years. In particular is discussed the concept of “social appropriation of knowledge” supported by the Colombian National Department of Science and Technology (COLCIENCIAS) and the agenda of innovation in the Government Plan of the current President ...