Common Sense, New Sense or Non‐Sense? A Critical Discursive Perspective on Power in Collective Sensemaking
提出一个三部分的理论框架，从批判话语视角解释组织意义建构中权力如何通过话语策略、体裁和话语层次运作，将结果区分为常识、新意或无稽之谈，对组织研究和批判话语研究有贡献。
Abstract Despite a growing interest in power in sensemaking, our understanding of how power is linked with language is still theoretically underdeveloped. To this end, we develop a critical discursive perspective on sensemaking comprised of a three‐part theoretical framework that elucidates the discursive underpinnings of power in organisational sensemaking. We first explain how discursive practices are used to turn cues into meaning. We then conceptualize how power operates within three layers of discursive practices: discursive strategies, genres, and discourses. This leads us to explain how the resulting sense can be conceptualized as common sense, new sense, or non‐sense. The main contribution of this paper is to help us understand how discursive practices underpin the operation of power in organisational sensemaking, thus adding a missing piece to sensemaking research. Our discursive analysis also advances understanding of the role of language in sensemaking more generally, has methodological implications for sensemaking research, and helps to move critical discourse studies forward in organisational contexts.