ABSTRACT
ORGANIZATIONS, like speech communities, speech networks, and speech fields, are sites in which culturally distinctive ways of speaking can be observed. These ways of speaking include a variety of discursive resources and practices, including symbols and meanings, habitual sequences for organizing cooperative activity, and specialized communicative genres. These resources and practices are as varied across organizations as are the environments, histories, and tasks of the organizations—and the organizing—that the resources and practices, in part, constitute.
