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Critical Discourse Analysis in Organizational Studies: Towards an Integrationist Methodology
Author(s) -
Chouliaraki Lilie,
Fairclough Norman
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00883.x
Subject(s) - rigour , reflexivity , dialectic , organization studies , scholarship , critical discourse analysis , epistemology , field (mathematics) , sociology , discourse analysis , dimension (graph theory) , order (exchange) , political science , social science , linguistics , philosophy , ideology , politics , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics , law , economics
We engage with Leitch and Palmer's (2010) analysis of Critical Discourse Analytical (CDA) scholarship in organizational and management studies, in order to argue that, whereas they rightly point to the need for further reflexivity in the field, their recommendation for a strict methodological protocol in CDA studies may be reproducing some of the problems they identify in their analysis. We put forward an alternative, relational‐dialectic conception of discourse that defends an integrationist orientation to research methodology, privileging trans‐disciplinarity over rigour.