Writing the economy : activity, genre, and technology in the world of banking

260 S.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Forward: persuasive economies / by Charles Bazerman -- Introduction -- The study -- An overview -- The research site -- The methodology : interpretive ethnography -- The theoretical orientation -- The organization of the book -- The monetary-policy process : the big picture -- Knowledge-building, ideology, and rhetoric in economics -- The economy as a cultural construct -- Knowledge-building, policy-making, and external communications -- Methodological reflections : foundations of interpretive ethnography -- Genres of knowledge-building and policy-making -- Mathematical models in disciplinary knowledge-building -- The quarterly projection model -- The projection exercise -- Issues meeting, starting point meeting, projection -- Rounds meetings, chiefs' meeting, presentation meeting -- Management committee meeting -- The white book -- End-of-quarter input to policy-making -- Benchmark for current analysis -- Reference point for sequence of meetings -- Friday presentation and tuesday meeting : governing -- Council meetings inter-projection : monitoring exercise and meeting management committee meeting -- The "monetary-policy story" -- Constructing the monetary-policy story -- Variations on genre conventions -- Methodological reflections : research questions, data collection and data analysis -- The interplay of discourse genres and economic modelling -- What QPM is -- Building, selling, and enhancing QPM -- What QPM does? -- QPM as a tool of reasoning -- QPM as a tool of intersubjectivity -- QPM's influence on written and spoken discourse -- The QPM vernacular -- Logical rigour -- The white book -- Methodological reflections: engagement and detachment -- Genres of external communications -- The communications strategy -- Written genres published -- Oral genres involving participants outside bank -- Written and oral genres behind-the-scenes -- Key features of the genre sub-set -- Practitioners' genre knowledge -- The relationship to organizational change -- The role of genres in the communications strategy -- Coordinating intellectual work -- Producing and communicating public information -- Acting as a site for organizational learning -- Methodological reflections : issues of validity, reliability and generalizability -- Conclusion : answering the "so what"? question -- A summary of the account -- The bank's monetary-policy process -- A focus on discourse genres -- Implications for discourse theory -- A socio-epistemic theory of organizational discourse -- An activity-based genre theory -- Implications for research in organizational discourse -- Implications for teaching organizational writing -- A few words of conclusion

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