Analyzing (in)formalities in an organizational consultants: community of practice in the linguistic anthropology perspective: methodological implications for the research
This article discusses a few issues on formality-informality based on linguistic anthropologist Judith Irvine's approach. It uses participant observation to analyze an organizational consultants community of practice (CoP). The main objective is to deal with the difficulties found during the ob...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Administração Pública |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/6631 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6631 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | communities of practice methodology formality linguistic anthropology Judith Irvine. comunidades de prática metodologia formalidade antropologia lingüística |
| Sumario: | This article discusses a few issues on formality-informality based on linguistic anthropologist Judith Irvine's approach. It uses participant observation to analyze an organizational consultants community of practice (CoP). The main objective is to deal with the difficulties found during the observation, which, based on Ir- vine, are called the (in)formalities methodological implications for the research. It concludes that the different aspects of such (in)formalities have a deep effect on the discourse under analysis and must be noticed not so much as to sterilize these elements discourse (as if this was possible and as though those elements were undesirable and/or extrinsic), but so that these analytical dimensions extend the focus of the code to the situation - and vice-versa - enriching the social approach of the linguistic phenomenon and the researcher's observational capabilities. |
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