Textual mapping of imitation and intertextuality in college and university mission statements: A new institutional perspective
| Autor: | Timothy N. Atkinson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System Language and Linguistics Solidarity Pedagogy Institutionalism Semiotics Ideology Sociology business Imitation Intertextuality media_common |
| Zdroj: | Semiotica. 2008 |
| ISSN: | 1613-3692 0037-1998 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/semi.2008.104 |
| Popis: | Using university mission statements from the 2006 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System from the U.S. Department of Education, the study generated network models of shared lexical patterns across institutional type. From the viewpoint of discursive institutionalism, this evidence, coupled with structural discourse patterns, suggested that university mission statements can operate as cultural-cognitive indicators, or ideational indicators of group solidarity, shared beliefs, and human agreement (Campbell and Pederson 2001; Meyer and Rowan 2006; Scott and Davis 2007). The implications for practice are to recognize patterns of taken-for-granted behaviors, then to ask ourselves if these static cultural-cognitive patterns serve to promote higher education ideology or work against discourse that promotes organizational change and evolution. |
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