The Language of Power and the Power of Language
反思组织分析中研究语言与权力的三种方法（民族志、对话分析、唯物主义）的充分性，通过讨论“严酷规则”等数据揭示语言视角在实践和分析上的局限。
In this paper earlier research by the author (Clegg 1975) is used as an occasion for reflecting more generally on the adequacy of approaches to the study of language and power in organization analysis. Three approaches, the ethnographic, conversation analysis and a materialist approach, are discussed. The limitations, both in practical and analytic terms, of a 'language' approach to power are drawn from a discussion of the 'inclemency rule' and other data.