Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 - Language/Organization: Introduction -- Part 1 - Language, Organization and Action -- Chapter 2 - Talking Sense: Ethnomethodology, Postmodernism and Practical Action -- Chapter 3 - Language That Organizes: Plans and Lists -- Chapter 4 - The Language of Strategy -- Part 2 - Metaphors of Organization -- Chapter 5 - The Scripted Organization: Dramaturgy from Burke to Baudrillard -- Chapter 6 - Mining for Meaning: Reading Organizations using Hermeneutic Philosophy -- Chapter 7 - Reclaiming Story in Organization: Narratologies and Action Sciences -- Part 3 - Language, Knowledge and Power -- Chapter 8 - The Prison-House of Language: The Penitential Discourse of Organizational Power -- Chapter 9 - After Knowledge: The Language of Information -- Chapter 10 - Rhetoric and Organizational Control: A Framework for Analysis -- Part 4 - Organizing Silence -- Chapter 11 - Appropriating the other in the Discourses of Comparative Management -- Chapter 12 - Telling it like it is? Gender, Language and Organizational Theory -- Part 5 - Writing, Theory and Beyond -- Chapter 13 - The Language of Organization Theory -- Chapter 14 - Meaning Beyond Language? Monstrous Openings -- Name Index -- Subject Index.