In this paper I describe the ways in which the communication discipline can make a hidden crisis transparent. For this purpose I examine the concept of crisis entrepreneurship from a communication point of view. Using discourse analysis, I analyse the discursive practices of crisis entrepreneurs in the …

Within a short period of time, the Netherlands transformed itself from a relatively tolerant country to a nation that called for cultural assimilation, tough measures and neo-patriotism. The discursive genre of 'new realism' played a crucial role in this retreat from multiculturalism, and that had a …

Metaphor is one of the important discursive themes in organizational literature (Grant et al.,2001). Metaphors play an important role in the discourse within organizations as well as in theorizing about organizations. This empirical paper focuses on the latter by analysing the role of metaphor in the …

Het onderzoek vindt plaats in het kader van een kritische discoursanalyse. Dit is een vorm van discoursanalyse, die is opgebouwd vanuit de taalkunde en de sociologie en die speciaal gefocust is op de mate waarin taal bijdraagt tot het handhaven of aanvechten van machtsverhoudingen in de maatschappij. …