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How things make things do things with words, or how to pay attention to what things have to say

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Bencherki, Nicolas
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	ABSTRACTWhile organisational communication research has traditionally limited talk to human beings, a trend within the Montreal School (TMS) of the Communicational Constitution of Organizations (CCO) perspective acknowledges that ‘things do things with words’ as well, and criticises the ‘bifurcation of nature’ into two distinct realms: materiality and discourse. However, due to a preference for studying human discourse, many TMS studies still may give the impression that only human spokespeople can make objects talk. This paper uses data from an ethnographic case study to argue that CCO is well equipped to recognise that other sorts of objects may speak as well, and that they enter the realm of language through yet other objects (i.e. their ‘spokesthings’). In doing so, this paper advances an argument that will counter critiques of TMS scholarship that propose it reduces the role played by objects to their interpretation by humans.
Starting Page	272
Ending Page	289
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1080/22041451.2016.1214888
Volume Number	2
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://r-libre.teluq.ca/1194/1/Corrected%20RCRP-2016-0015%20Spokesthings%20(self-archive).pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2016.1214888
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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