Diane
here are a couple of references
Czarniawska, Barbara (1997) Narrating the organization. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press
Czarniawska, Barbara (1997) On the imperative and impossibility of the polyphony in organizational studies. Paper presesented in Leuwen, Belgium June 1997
my notes are from the presentation, which was based on her new book
my notes:
she look at some examples of how the tower of babel has been used/explained and writes that
linguistics look for universal language, scientist look for the perfect one ....management and org. theory base their legitimacy on telling the truly universal story of organizing. she disagrees and suggest analysis of polyphony. she suggests one solution is bahtin's notion of variegated speech, so that different dialects are produced by the author and she aims at drawing attention to the multiplicity of voices in the contemporary world.
-translation is linguistic innovationshe uses translation in the latourian(1986) way, meaning both transition and tranformation
she cites byatt (novel about the tower of babel) and stephenson (snow crash): a dream of a perfect language is a totalitarian nightmare. eco (1995) points to another explanation of babel: a fantastic technological achievement . reminds that already dante suggested that the linguistic conflict was, in fact, a professional or occupational conflict
she emphasizes that we are in the market for meanings, and there are power positions inside it.
she cites rorty (1991, p.209) who uses the metaphor of the bazaar, instead of a gentleman's club. all the clubs have a common interest of maintaining the instituiton of a bazaar. "the language of the clubs are indeed incompatible but the practise of haggling makes translation an everyday bussiness."
best merja
Merja Helle
Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Reserch
University of Helsinki, Finland
email:merja.helle@helsinki.fi
phone +358 41 4485 111
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----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Hodges <dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:37 AM
Subject: academic refresher course...
> Hello dears -
>
> well colour ME embarrassed, but i've been looking for essays or articles
> that analyse the biblical story of the Tower of Babel,
> and am in a SEA of i don't know what.
>
> I'm looking for ways that the story itself has been elaborated
> to discuss language, metaphor, difference, communication,
> but cannot seem to narrow that down to a particular "faculty" of
> thought.
>
> i thought i'd toss this out, in case anyone has come across
> such works in their browsings...
>
> it's not an emergency or anything, and i'll find something eventually,
> i'm just - mostly - frustrated by how hard it is to research
> outside the academic library...
>
> thanks
> diane
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>
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> "As he half dozed the thought struck him of what it might be like to
> record the reality of things,
> matched with the thoughts and impressions it brought forth.
> To find the edge on which the interior met the exterior space...
> If he could keep some sense of how things really were,
> he might retain a little of it over time.
> The past was always disguising itself, disappearing into the needs
> of the moment. Whatever happened got replaced by the
> official story or competing fictions."
> Robert Stone
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> diane celia hodges
> university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
> instruction
> vancouver, bc
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