Organizational Rhetoric: Where Are We?

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Nearly thirty years after the introduction of organizational rhetoric to our field, we are still carving out its niche. What challenges do we still face? How do we deal with the multiple organizational voices? How do we avoid reducing rhetoric to a technique? How is the rhetorical criticism of organizations similar to and different from critical discourse analysis? This panel hopes to address these, and other, questions about the state and future of organizational rhetoric.

Sub Unit

• Organizational Communication Division

Chair

• Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Presenters

• Mattea A. Garcia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Vincent Pham, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• Daniel Lair, University of Denver

• James Hedges, Westminster College

• Zachary Benjamin, University of Illinois, Chicago

Respondent

• George Cheney, University of Utah

Session Organizer

• Mattea A. Garcia, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign