Negotiating leader identities through indirect mockery in talk about decision-making in a distributed leadership context

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI:10.1075/ld.00162.sal

Elina Salomaa, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Esa Lehtinen

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Abstract

In this article, we scrutinise how humour, and in particular, indirect mockery contributes to the construction of leader identities in talk about decision-making in an organisation characterized by a distributed leadership context. So rather than focusing on decision-making episodes themselves, we tease out an aspect of the goal achievement side of the leadership influence process. Through multimodal discourse analysis, we focus on episodes in which the implementation side of decisions is discussed and in which the head of the team initiates a humorous sequence, as this turned out to be an integral part of talk about decision-making. We found that the humour was always oriented towards upper management and that it could serve various functions. Overall, we argue that indirect mockery was a crucial means to navigate the tension that emerges from the team head’s position within the complex leadership constellation, thus offering a critical perspective on distributed leadership.

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在分布式领导背景下，通过间接嘲讽谈论决策来协商领导者身份

在本文中，我们将仔细研究在一个以分布式领导为特征的组织中，幽默，尤其是间接嘲讽，是如何在有关决策的谈话中帮助构建领导者身份的。因此，我们的研究重点不是决策事件本身，而是领导影响过程中目标实现的一个方面。通过多模态话语分析，我们将重点放在讨论决策执行方面的情节上，在这些情节中，团队负责人发起了一个幽默的序列，因为这被证明是关于决策的谈话中不可或缺的一部分。我们发现，幽默总是面向上层管理者，而且可以发挥各种功能。总之，我们认为间接嘲讽是一种重要的手段，可以化解团队负责人在复杂的领导力结构中的地位所产生的紧张关系，从而为分布式领导力提供了一个批判性的视角。

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期刊介绍： In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.