The Language of Organizational Styling
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| Title: | The Language of Organizational Styling |
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| Description: | The ways in which commercial organizations and service providers'style'themselves - creating the image they wish to portray to their potential consumers - is a long-established area of research in the fields of sociology and business studies. However, language also plays an important role in organizational styling, something which until now has been largely overlooked in the literature. This is the first book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling, looking at the language and semiotic resources used by holiday resorts, pharmaceutical companies, restaurants and insurance companies in order to project their identities, and style themselves. It discusses in detail a number of case studies and presents an innovative take on the notion of style, as well as bringing together work from linguistics, business studies and sociology. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in sociolinguistics, and scholars of sociology and business studies. |
| Authors: | Lionel Wee |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | English language--Style--Study and teaching (Higher), English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher), English language--Business English--Study and teaching (Higher), Business writing--Technique, Business writing--Study and teaching |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The ways in which commercial organizations and service providers'style'themselves - creating the image they wish to portray to their potential consumers - is a long-established area of research in the fields of sociology and business studies. However, language also plays an important role in organizational styling, something which until now has been largely overlooked in the literature. This is the first book-length study of the linguistics of organizational styling, looking at the language and semiotic resources used by holiday resorts, pharmaceutical companies, restaurants and insurance companies in order to project their identities, and style themselves. It discusses in detail a number of case studies and presents an innovative take on the notion of style, as well as bringing together work from linguistics, business studies and sociology. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in sociolinguistics, and scholars of sociology and business studies. |
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| ISBN: | 9781107054806 9781316204207 |
