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001 2005021565
003 DLC
005 20090217184507.0
008 050803s2006 enka b 001 0 eng
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016 7 $a013343446$2Uk
020 $a1845530667 (hbk.)
020 $a9781845530662 (hbk.)
020 $a1845530675 (pbk.)
020 $a9781845530679 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm61240539
035 $a(OCoLC)61240539
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050 00 $aHD30.3$b.S565 2006
082 00 $a332.4/971$222
100 1 $aSmart, Graham.
245 10 $aWriting the economy :$bactivity, genre, and technology in the world of banking /$cGraham Smart.
260 $aLondon ;$aOakville, CT :$bEquinox,$c2006.
300 $a260 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in language and communication
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-253) and index.
505 0 $aForward : persuasive economies / by Charles Bazerman -- Introduction -- The study -- An overview -- The research site -- The methodology : interpretive ethnography -- The theoretical orientation -- The organization of the book -- The monetary-policy process : the big picture -- Knowledge-building, ideology, and rhetoric in economics -- 'The economy' as a cultural construct -- Knowledge-building, policy-making, and external communications -- Methodological reflections : foundations of interpretive ethnography -- Genres of knowledge-building and policy-making -- Mathematical models in disciplinary knowledge-building -- The quarterly projection model -- The projection exercise -- Issues meeting -- Start point meetings -- Chiefs' meeting -- The white book -- End-of-quarter input to policy-making -- Benchmark for current analysis -- Reference point for sequence of meetings -- The monetary-policy story -- Constructing the monetary-policy story -- Variations on genre conventions -- Methodological reflections : research questions, data collection and data analysis -- Probing key terms -- Examining the life-cycle narratives -- Identifying converging perspectives -- Applying disciplinary theory -- The interplay of discourse genres and economic modelling -- What Quarterly Projection Model? -- Building, 'selling', and enhancing QPM -- What QPM does? -- QPM as a tool of reasoning -- QPM as a tool of intersubjectivity -- QPM's influence on written and spoken discourse -- The QPM vernacular -- Logical rigour -- The white book -- Methodological reflections : engagement and detachment -- Genres of external communications -- The communications strategy -- Written genres - published -- Oral genres - involving participants outside the bank -- Written and oral genres - behind the scenes -- Two key features of the genre sub-set -- Practitioners' genre knowledge -- The relationship to organizational change -- The role of genres in the communications strategy -- Coordinating intellectual work -- Producing and communicating public information -- Acting as a site for organizationa learning -- Methodological reflections : issues of validity, reliability and generalizability -- Conclusion : answering the 'so what'? question -- A summary of the account -- The bank's monetary-policy process -- A focus on discourse genres -- Implications for discourse theory -- A socio-epistemic theory of organizational discourse -- An activity-based genre theory -- Implications for research in organizational discourse -- Implications for teaching organizational writing -- A few words of conclusion.
650 0 $aCommunication in organizations.
650 0 $aCommunication in management.
650 0 $aDiscourse analysis.
610 20 $aBank of Canada.
650 0 $aMonetary policy$zCanada.
830 0 $aStudies in language and communication (London, England)
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005021565.html