Punctors constitute a class of markers that have usually been classified as nervous tics, fillers, or signs of hesitation. The words we consider to be punctors share a number of structural and functional characteristics: they manifest prosodic assimilation to the preceding phrase; they are almost never preceded by a pause; they show a high degree of phonological reduction; and all punctors have...

This article examines the centrality of storytelling in achieving managerially relevant outcomes, with a focus on the in-situ performance context of corporate storytellers influencing one another. The Ricœurian concept of speech act, capturing both the intentionality of organisational discourse and the social context of its production and reception, implicitly guided our research effort. The ar...

IT projects are often complex arrangements of technological components, social actions, and organizational transformation that are difficult to manage in practice. This paper takes an analytical discourse perspective to explore the process of legitimizing IT projects. We introduce the concept of resonating statements to highlight how central actors navigate in various discourses over time. Part...

This paper reports on a distance education project where a threaded discussion board was used for interaction amongst students and teachers. The experiences from the first year of the project shows that such a forum can be an important complement to other evaluative resources in order to monitor student's expectations and experiences. Furthermore, it is argued that discursive evaluations can se...

Most explorations of the epistemic implications of Semantic AntiIndividualism (SAI) focus on issues of self-knowledge (first-person authority) and/or external-world skepticism. Less explored has been SAI’s implications for the epistemology of reasoning. In this paper I argue that SAI has some nontrivial implications on this score. I bring these out by reflecting on a problem first raised by Bog...