G. Mautner
From administrator to CEO: Exploring changing representations of hierarchy and prestige in a diachronic corpus of academic management writing
Mautner, G.; Learmonth, M.
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M. Learmonth
Abstract
We explore the lexical choices made by authors published in Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ), a major academic journal in business and management studies. We do so via a corpus constructed from all the articles published in ASQ from its first publication in 1956 up until the end of 2018. Specifically, our focus is on lexical items that represent social actors. Our findings suggest that, compared to earlier work, recent articles typically ascribe greater status and prestige to organizational elites. Relatively contemporary papers are also more likely to use language that obfuscates or ignores unpalatable aspects of organizational life, such as power asymmetries, hierarchy and control through identity regulation. We suggest that these changes in word choices can be understood to reflect a wider trend towards neo-liberal rhetoric – a rhetoric increasingly pervading contemporary social life more generally.
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Mautner, G., & Learmonth, M. (2020). From administrator to CEO: Exploring changing representations of hierarchy and prestige in a diachronic corpus of academic management writing. Discourse & Communication, 14(3), 273-293. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481319893771
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 19, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 27, 2019 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Nov 19, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 3, 2020 |
Journal | Discourse & Communication |
Print ISSN | 1750-4813 |
Electronic ISSN | 1750-4821 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 273-293 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481319893771 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1277022 |
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