Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to a PDW at the 2019 AOM meeting in Boston on:
Language, Meaning, and Organizing: The Future of Linguistic Theories, Data, and Methodologies [Saturday, August 10, 8 – 9:30 AM, Boston Hynes Convention Center / 205] [link]
Organizer: Derek Harmon, U. of Michigan
Organizer: Helen Etchanchu, Montpellier Business School
Organizer: Hovig Tchalian, Drucker School of Management
Panelist: Nelson Phillips, Imperial College London
Panelist: Mark Kennedy, Imperial College Business School
Panelist: Renate Elisabeth Meyer, WU Vienna & Copenhagen Business School
Panelist: Joseph Porac, New York U.
Panelist: Eero Vaara, Aalto U. School of Business
Panelist: Klaus Weber, Northwestern U.
Discussant: Shahzad Ansari, Cambridge U.
Discussant: Jonathan Nicholas Bundy, Arizona State U.
Discussant: Stine Grodal, Boston U.
Discussant: Yuan Li, Saint Mary's College of California
Discussant: Jeffrey Loewenstein, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Michael Pfarrer, U. of Georgia
Discussant: Linda L. Putnam, U. of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Tyler Wry, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Tammar B. Zilber, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem
Summary
Over the last 30 years, our field has experienced a proliferation of theoretical perspectives that examine language in organizational and institutional settings (e.g., impression management, framing, rhetoric, discourse, narratives, vocabularies). This proliferation has been accelerated more recently by the increased availability of a large volume of texts as well as methodological developments that enable us to analyze these texts like never before. However, this explosion of theoretical perspectives, data availability, and methodological approaches has challenged researchers to think more carefully about which theoretical and methodological approaches to use for their desired research objectives. This PDW provides a forum for bringing together a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to language as well as to broaden the scope of this growing community by inviting scholars who have used language directly or indirectly in their research and would like to contribute to this area of work in the future.
PART 1 of PDW (open to all participants)
The first part will feature a panel discussion of five experts (Mark Kennedy, Renate Meyer, Joe Porac, Eero Vaara, Klaus Weber), moderated by Nelson Phillips, who will discuss promising new directions at the intersection of linguistic theories, data, and methodologies. This conversation will be followed by a brief Q&A session with the audience.
PART 2 of PDW (requires pre-registration and proposal submission)
The second part involves personalized feedback from our panelists and discussants on a paper proposal submitted by participants who have pre-registered and submitted a paper proposal. Please contact the session organizer to obtain the approval code. Proposals should be 3 – 5 pages long (excluding references) and should, at minimum, describe a) the research question, b) the theoretical audience, c) the data and linguistic methodology, d) a summary of your empirical findings, and e) proposed theoretical contribution. Participants will be selected based on quality of submission, with an eye towards including scholars at different career stages and schools. The deadline to submit your proposal and register online is June 30, 2019. Proposals should be sent to the session organizer, Derek Harmon (djharmon@umich.edu). In this email, please also list your top 3 roundtable preferences (see below).
Roundtables available
Table Topic
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Expert 1
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Expert 2
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Discourse
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Nelson Phillips
Imperial College, London
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Linda Putnam
UC Santa Barbara
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Framing & rhetoric
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Shaz Ansari
Cambridge University
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Yuan Li
St. Mary's College
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Multimodality
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Renate Meyer
WU Vienna
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Eero Vaara
Aalto University
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Categories
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Tyler Wry
University of Pennsylvania
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Joe Porac
New York University
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Markets
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Stine Grodal
Boston University
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Mike Pfarrer
University of Georgia
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Sensemaking
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Klaus Weber
Northwestern University
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Tammar Zilber
Hebrew University
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Social evaluations
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Jeff Loewenstein
University of Illinois
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Jon Bundy
Arizona State University
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Best wishes,
Derek Harmon, Helen Etchanchu, Hovig Tchalian
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Derek Harmon
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI
(651) 271-0320
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