Displaying Competence in Organizations: Discourse Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Discourse Perspectives on Competence in Organizations....Pages 1-9
‘Taking Ownership’: Language and Ethnicity in the Job Interview....Pages 10-26
Equality for Those Who Are Competent. Discourses on Competencies, Diversity and Equality in the Public Sector....Pages 27-44
The Language of Power: an Analysis of a Corpus of CEO Letters....Pages 45-59
The Successful 2008 Presidential Candidate: How Political Weblogs Have Contributed in Shaping the American Electorate’s Preferences....Pages 60-89
The Representation of Competence in Newspaper Interviews: a Linguistic–Pragmatic Discourse Analysis of the (Self-) Representation of Journalists and Politicians in Written Interviews....Pages 90-110
Competence on Display: Crafting Stories during Newsroom Editorial Conferences....Pages 111-130
Interpreting Competence: Nursing Staff and Family Members as Ad Hoc Interpreters in Hospitals....Pages 131-149
The Discursive Construal of Purpose by Means of Competence in German and English Corporate Mission Statements....Pages 150-179
‘Adam Smith for Diocesan Missioner’: Legitimation in Religious Discourse....Pages 180-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-210