1- Talking About Race
Shifting the Analytical Paradigm
Celine-Marie Pascale
American University
Qualitative Inquiry
July 2008, Volume 14, No. 5
http://qix.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/5/723

This article examines patterns of common-sense knowledge about race to understand how race is made to appear both self-evident and inherently meaningful in daily interactions. It explores a new methodological imaginary by drawing strategically from ethnomethodology and poststructural discourse analysis to examine the histories and the visions of power that rest beneath the surface of common-sense knowledge about race. Because common-sense knowledge links the production of meaning in local contexts to the broader production of cultural knowledge, it provides a key focal point for examining the dialogical relationship between the apparent agency of local practices and the efficacy of cultural discourse. The article concludes with implications for social research and social justice.
Key Words: race • common sense • discourse analysis • textual analysis

2-Organizational discourse and communication: the progeny of Proteus
Guowei Jian
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY, USA, g.jian@csuohio.edu 
Amy M. Schmisseur
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, USA
Gail T. Fairhurst
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI, USA
Discourse & Communication
August 2008, Volume 2, No. 3
http://dcm.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/3/299
 
As Van Dijk (2007) proposed in the first issue of Discourse and Communication , the main purpose of this journal is to bridge the two cross-disciplines of communication and discourse studies. Given this goal, this article sought to help clear the ground for such interdisciplinary development by investigating how organizational researchers use the terms `discourse' and `communication' and cast discourse—communication relationships. By reviewing 112 organizational discourse studies from major journals in communication, organizational studies, and interdisciplinary journals published between 1981 and 2006, this study identified diverse conceptualizations of these basic concepts. The findings help dispel some of the misunderstandings that scholars from one research field may possess toward the other and sort through some, if not all, the confusions regarding the terms `discourse', `communication', and their relationships.
Key Words: communication • discourse • discourse analysis • organizational communication • organizational discourse