Re: TALKING WORK vs TALKING AT WORK

[Dale.Cyphert@uni.edu]

Chiara,
I actually like your terminology, distingishing between "talking work" 
and "talking at work", but the distinctions between the two are not at 
all simple.

Are you looking at the organizational communication and small 
group/team communication literatures?  The notion of "talking work" 
from those literatures seems like a hugely encompassing frame that 
might need some fine-tuning.

dale



> Hi! Does it make sense to you distinguishing between TALKING WORK vs 
TALKING ATWORK?
>  
> where TALKING WORK  is a discursive professional activity (such as 
teaching, or a medical
consultation or a problem solving meeting, etc.) 
> while TALKING AT WORK is any talk occorring in workplaces (talking 
to coordinate non
discursive activities, chatting during the coffee break, etc.)
> Shall I use a better terminology to address such a distinction? Does 
anybody know a
collection of studies specifically on what I call TALKING WORK ?
> Thanks!
> Chiara
>