Meaning & Measurement Mini-Conference
Eleanor T. Lewis — Dartmouth
Eleanor.T.Lewis@Dartmouth.eduI'm an organizational sociologist with a strong background in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. I recently completed my PhD and spent my graduate school years studying "organizational language." Primarily this has been the texts and documents that organizations produce, but it has also included communication between individuals in organizations.
Given my background and research, I'm most concerned about how we use texts and other forms of discourse in our research. When we use texts/discourse as our data, are we taking full advantage of them as rich cultural objects, but also being systematic and rigorous, using the tools available from other fields? I'm also interested in the challenges of connecting the macro-phenomena and macro-social structures that are of interest to institutionalists with the micro-phenomena and micro-linguistic data that help construct them (their "content" as you put it).