Imitation, intertextuality, and hyperreality in U.S. higher education

Autor:	Timothy N. Atkinson
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory Higher education business.industry Discourse analysis Language and Linguistics Epistemology Hyperreality Institutionalism Pedagogy Organizational theory Sociology business Intertextuality Mimetic isomorphism Isomorphism (sociology)
Zdroj:	Semiotica. 2008
ISSN:	1613-3692 0037-1998
DOI:	10.1515/sem.2008.023
Popis:	The study combined organizational theory with semiotic and discourse analysis to arrive at some compelling themes concerning higher education culture in the United States. One of the theoretical vehicles for intertextuality in organizational fields appears to lie in institutionalism and the mechanisms involved in isomorphism where organizations become to share similar structures, components, images and language. Three concepts of institutional isomorphism are at play - mimetic, coercive, and normative - where institutions become like one another especially in organizational fields (Dimaggio and Powell 1983). These three processes provided the theoretical backbone to explore the how universities represent themselves to the public through mission statements and their corresponding university websites at 28 randomly sampled research intensive universities.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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