The role of language and the language of role in institutional decision making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2876492 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hugh Mehan (University of California System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-211 |
| Publication date | 1983-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404500009805 |
| OpenAlex | W2093010588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 28 |
The relationship between linguistic processes, cognitive activities, and social structures is explored by examining the decision making of committees of educators as they decide to place students into special education programs or retain them in regular classrooms. Often, different committee members enter committee meetings with different views of the student's case and its disposition, e.g., classroom teachers and parents provide accounts of the student's performance that compete with the view of the psychologist or district representative. Yet by the meeting's end, the version of the student's case provided by the psychologist or the district representative prevails
Cognition · Disposition · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Structures of Discourse and Structures of Power
Talk about Money. Studying the Interaction between Social Worker and Client
Electronic Commons, Community Policing, and Communication
'I Actually Turn My Back on [Some] Students'
"Medical Discourse" in Anthropological Context
Referential and relational meaning in interpreted discourse
Constructing an account by contrast in counselling for childhood genetic testing
Identity Enactment in Intellectual Discussion
Culture as Disability
Linguistics and Education
On 'Labeling' in Actual Interaction
Student essays as evidential resource in placement meetings
Categorization and explanation of risk
Moments of Hierarchy
Marginal voices
Comment?Bad News and Good News
English is important, but perfect English is not”
Students with special needs
Going Off Script
Accounting for achievement in parent-teacher interviews
Applied ethnomethodology
Can you overlap here?”
First encounters
The politics of codeswitching and language choice
Prejudice, categorization and particularization
Cultivating Client Initiatives in Social Work
Assessing the Coordination of Children's Services
Team decision-making in workplace meetings
Time for a Tune-Up
The Missing Voice in Interdisciplinary Communication
Ways of 'appealing to the institution' in interprofessional rehabilitation team decision-making
Don't go on my property
The role of language and the language of role in institutional decision making
Accounting practices in medical interviews
Data analysis and 'theorizing as ideology
Field Research on Human Service Encounters
Enactments of Expertise
Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behavior
Metaphors We Live By
Prototypes in Person Perception
Structuring School Structure
Logic and Conversation
Studies in ethnomethodology
The Theory Of Social And Economic Organization
Structure of Social Action
From Max Weber
Learning Lessons
Description in ethnomethodology
Linguistic considerations in the simplification/clarification of insurance policy language∗
Science and Its Mirror Image
Likeness and Likelihood in Everyday Thought
The reality of ethnomethodology
Some signals and rules for taking speaking turns in conversations
The Very Coinage of Your Brain
Criteria for an Ethnographically Adequate Description of Concerted Activities and their Contexts
A Simplest Systematics for the Organization of Turn-Taking for Conversation
The role of language and the language of role in institutional decision making
From Max Weber
Formality and Informality in Communicative Events
The child as a social object
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2024 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |