Social Poetics as Management Inquiry: A Dialogical Approach

The author’s position in this article is that we create our social realities, meaning, and selves in embodied and situated dialogue. Given the premise that language is metaphorical and sense making a multiply constructed, dynamic embodied practice, then what are the implications for research? The au...

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Published in:Journal of management inquiry 2002-06, Vol.11 (2), p.128-146
Main Author: Cunliffe, Ann L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavioral sciences
Epistemology
Interpersonal communication
Language
Linguistics
Ontology
Organization studies
Organizational behavior
Poetics
Postmodernism
Research methodology
Speaking
Studies
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Summary:The author’s position in this article is that we create our social realities, meaning, and selves in embodied and situated dialogue. Given the premise that language is metaphorical and sense making a multiply constructed, dynamic embodied practice, then what are the implications for research? The author suggests social poetics is one research practice that offers a way of exploring how, in the flow of our embodied dialogical activity, we relate to our surroundings and make sense of our experiences. Embracing a radically reflexive stance, social poetics elevates everyday, imaginative ways of talking, for example, metaphors, storytelling, and gestural statements. Using excerpts from research conversations, the author explores the practice of social poetics as a form of management inquiry.
ISSN:1056-4926
1552-6542
DOI:10.1177/10592602011002006