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Contribution-Representation-Subordination as conversational patterns

Manifestations of collective mind during routinized talk at work
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Abstract

Building on Weick and Roberts (1993) initial distinction between three interactional patterns (Contribution, Representation, Subordination), this paper explores how collective minding (Cooren, 2004) could be manifested – and potentially performed or enacted – even during day to day interactions – or routines – in the workplace. Analysing a telephone exchange selected among a voluminous corpus of recorded interactions occurring during the routines of inter-organizational relationships (the delivery process in the French furniture sector), we present a model of conversational patterns likely to be involved in the manifestation of collective minding. We then discuss the implication of this analysis for current controversies in organizational communication theories (Cooren 2006; McPhee, Myers & Trethewey 2006). Keywords: collective mind(ing); dialogue/conversation/interaction analysis; Inter-firm collaboration; organizational communication

Abstract

Building on Weick and Roberts (1993) initial distinction between three interactional patterns (Contribution, Representation, Subordination), this paper explores how collective minding (Cooren, 2004) could be manifested – and potentially performed or enacted – even during day to day interactions – or routines – in the workplace. Analysing a telephone exchange selected among a voluminous corpus of recorded interactions occurring during the routines of inter-organizational relationships (the delivery process in the French furniture sector), we present a model of conversational patterns likely to be involved in the manifestation of collective minding. We then discuss the implication of this analysis for current controversies in organizational communication theories (Cooren 2006; McPhee, Myers & Trethewey 2006). Keywords: collective mind(ing); dialogue/conversation/interaction analysis; Inter-firm collaboration; organizational communication

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Dialogue 1
  5. Towards an inclusive notion of dialog for ethical and moral purposes 17
  6. Dogmatic dialogue 37
  7. Representing gender in parliamentary dialogue 59
  8. Dialogue as a truth-conveying discursive strategy 83
  9. Democracy and web-based dialogue 99
  10. The metadiscourse of “voice” 125
  11. Representation, re-presentation, presentation, and conversation 143
  12. On the representation of a dialogue with God 161
  13. Where is dialogue in classroom discussion? 177
  14. Dialogue entries and exits 195
  15. Contribution-Representation-Subordination as conversational patterns 215
  16. On the possibility of rhetoric as a dialogical guide for practical reason(ing) 237
  17. The role of the moving image in the representation of a sensible dialogue between users and space 257
  18. Dialogue as a possibility for knowledge in organizations 271
  19. Socrates as character, Socrates as narrator 289
  20. Evidential information represented in dialogue 303
  21. Dialogues between two pupils during the process of writing a fictional story 325
  22. Author Index 343
  23. Subject Index 345
(Re)presentations and Dialogue
This chapter is in the book (Re)presentations and Dialogue
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.16.12fau

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Dialogue 1
  5. Towards an inclusive notion of dialog for ethical and moral purposes 17
  6. Dogmatic dialogue 37
  7. Representing gender in parliamentary dialogue 59
  8. Dialogue as a truth-conveying discursive strategy 83
  9. Democracy and web-based dialogue 99
  10. The metadiscourse of “voice” 125
  11. Representation, re-presentation, presentation, and conversation 143
  12. On the representation of a dialogue with God 161
  13. Where is dialogue in classroom discussion? 177
  14. Dialogue entries and exits 195
  15. Contribution-Representation-Subordination as conversational patterns 215
  16. On the possibility of rhetoric as a dialogical guide for practical reason(ing) 237
  17. The role of the moving image in the representation of a sensible dialogue between users and space 257
  18. Dialogue as a possibility for knowledge in organizations 271
  19. Socrates as character, Socrates as narrator 289
  20. Evidential information represented in dialogue 303
  21. Dialogues between two pupils during the process of writing a fictional story 325
  22. Author Index 343
  23. Subject Index 345
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