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  1. To communicate is to make communicate

    Article • Language and Dialogue, October 2025, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  2. A critique of the adjacency pair dogma

    Article • Language and Dialogue, August 2023, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  3. Reconciling dialogue and propagation

    Article • Language and Dialogue, May 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  4. Review of Weigand (2017): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue

    Article • Language and Dialogue, November 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  5. A Communicative Constitutive Perspective on Corporate Social Responsibility: Ventriloquism, Undecidability, and Surprisability

    Article • Business & Society, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  6. Dialogic Ethics

    Article • May 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  7. Dialogue and Ethics

    Article • Language and Dialogue, June 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  8. Introduction

    Article • Language and Dialogue, June 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  9. Analyzing online suicide prevention chats

    Article • Language and Dialogue, June 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren, liseHi Higham

  10. Polyphony, Ventriloquism, and Constitution: In Dialogue with Bakhtin

    Article • Communication Theory, July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren, Sergeiy Sandler

  11. Language and Communication at Work

    Article • May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  12. Language and Communication at Work

    Article • May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  13. Overview of the "communication constitutes organization" (CCO) view & its 3 main schools of thought

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, April 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren, Professor Dennis Schoeneborn

  14. Incarnation, sensation and ventriloquism: For a sensitive and constitutive view of pragmatics

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr François Cooren

  15. Decentering our analytical position: The dialogicity of things

    Article • Discourse & Communication, October 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  16. Communication as Ventriloquism: A Grounded-in-Action Approach to the Study of Organizational Tensions

    Article • Communication Monographs, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr François Cooren

  17. Spacing Practices: The Communicative Configuration of Organizing Through Space-Times

    Article • Communication Theory, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  18. Why Matter Always Matters in (Organizational) Communication

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  19. Les formations sociales et les processus de leur délitement

    Article • Communication, November 2012, OpenEdition

    Dr François Cooren

  20. (Re)presentations and Dialogue

    Article • November 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren, Alain Létourneau

  21. The Collective Framing of Crisis Management: A Ventriloqual Analysis of Emergency Operations Centres

    Article • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, August 2012, Wiley

    Dr François Cooren

  22. Dialogue and Representation

    Article • Language and Dialogue, May 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren, Alain Létourneau

  23. Dialogue and representation

    Article • Language and Dialogue, May 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren, Alain Létourneau

  24. Communication Theory at the Center: Ventriloquism and the Communicative Constitution of Reality

    Article • Journal of Communication, February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  25. Introduction

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  26. Having to be: The possessive constitution of organization

    Article • Human Relations, November 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren, Dr Nicolas Bencherki

  27. Communication, Organizing and Organization: An Overview and Introduction to the Special Issue

    Article • Organization Studies, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  28. Communication as Incarnation

    Article • Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr François Cooren

  29. The Role of Organizational Identification in the Communicative Constitution of an Organization: A Study of Consubstantialization in a Young Political Party

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, April 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  30. Organizational Communication in France: An Overview of Current Research

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, August 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  31. For a constitutive pragmatics

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, August 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  32. Action and Agency in Dialogue

    Article • June 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  33. Comment les textes écrivent l’organisation. Figures, ventriloquie et incarnation

    Article • Études de communication, June 2010, OpenEdition

    Dr François Cooren

  34. “My Attitude Made Me Do It”: Considering the Agency of Attitudes

    Article • Human Studies, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr François Cooren

  35. Figures of communication and dialogue: Passion, ventriloquism and incarnation

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Dr François Cooren

  36. Ventriloquie, performativité et communication

    Article • Réseaux, January 2010, CAIRN

    Dr François Cooren

  37. Leadership as the Hybrid Production of Presence(s)

    Article • Leadership, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  38. The Accomplishment of Authority Through Presentification

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, June 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  39. The Haunting Question of Textual Agency: Derrida and Garfinkel on Iterability and Eventfulness

    Article • Research on Language and Social Interaction, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr François Cooren

  40. When Voices Really Clash: A Tribute to Jacob Mey

    Article • January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr François Cooren

  41. 1 Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication

    Article • Academy of Management Annals, January 2009, The Academy of Management

    Dr François Cooren

  42. The coproduction of organizational presence: A study of Médecins Sans Frontières in action

    Article • Human Relations, October 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren, Dr Damien Charrieras

  43. Organization Studies

    Article • Organization Studies, June 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  44. Special Issue on “New Directions in Organizational Communication Research”

    Article • Organization Studies, May 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  45. Special Issue on “New Directions in Organizational Communication Research”

    Article • Organization Studies, February 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  46. Special Issue on “New Directions in Organizational Communication Research”

    Article • Organization Studies, January 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  47. Between semiotics and pragmatics: Opening language studies to textual agency

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr François Cooren

  48. The selection of agency as a rhetorical device: Opening up the scene of dialogue through ventriloquism

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  49. Organization Studies

    Article • Organization Studies, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  50. A humanitarian organization in action: organizational discourse as an immutable mobile

    Article • Discourse & Communication, May 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  51. The Organizational Communication-Discourse Tilt

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, May 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  52. From agency to structure: Analysis of an episode in a facilitation process

    Article • Human Relations, April 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  53. Arguments for the In-Depth Study of Organizational Interactions

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, February 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  54. Arguments for a Plurified View of the Social World

    Article • Time & Society, September 2005, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  55. Speech Timing and Spacing: The Phenomenon of Organizational Closure

    Article • Organization, November 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  56. Review of Kecskes (2003): Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, June 2004, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  57. Textual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings

    Article • Organization, May 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  58. Alternative Perspectives on the Role of Text and Agency in Constituting Organizations

    Article • Organization, May 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  59. The Communicative Achievement of Collective Minding

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, May 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  60. Implicatures: a schematic approach

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, August 2002, Elsevier

    Dr François Cooren

  61. Discursiveness, Contradiction, and Unintended Consequences in Successive Downsizings

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, May 2002, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  62. Acting and organizing

    Article • Concepts and Transformation, December 2001, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  63. The Organizing Property of Communication20011The Organizing Property of Communication. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company 1999. 320 pp, ISBN: ISBN: 9027250790 £32.00 (hardback)

    Article • Corporate Communications An International Journal, December 2001, Emerald

    Dr François Cooren

  64. Translation and articulation in the organization of coalitions: the Great Whale River case

    Article • Communication Theory, May 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  65. Translation and articulation in the organization of coalitions: the Great Whale River case

    Article • Communication Theory, May 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  66. Toward another ideal speech situation: A critique of habermas’ reinterpretation of speech act theory

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Speech, August 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Dr François Cooren

  67. The Organizing Property of Communication

    Article • March 2000, John Benjamins

    Dr François Cooren

  68. Applying Socio-Semiotics to Organizational Communication

    Article • Management Communication Quarterly, November 1999, SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  69. The procedural and rhetorical modes of the organizing dimension of communication: Discursive analysis of a parliamentary commission

    Article • The Communication Review, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr François Cooren

  70. A socio‐semiotic approach to computerization: Bridging the gap between ethnographers and systems analysts

    Article • The Communication Review, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Dr François Cooren

  71. Actes de langage et argumentation

    Article • Revue Philosophique de Louvain, August 1997, Peeters Publishers

    Dr François Cooren

  72. Organization as an Effect of Mediation: Redefining the Link Between Organization and Communication

    Article • Communication Theory, August 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  73. What makes communication ‘organizational’?

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 1997, Elsevier

    Dr François Cooren

  74. Actes de langage et semio-narrativite: une analyse semiotique des indirections

    Article • Semiotica, January 1997, De Gruyter

    Dr François Cooren

  75. The Communicational Basis of Organization: Between the Conversation and the Text

    Article • Communication Theory, February 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren

  76. Philosophy of Communication

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr François Cooren, Dr Nicolas Bencherki

  77. Actor-Network Theory

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  78. Organizational Language in use: Interaction Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Speech Act Schematics

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren

  79. The Leader as a Practical Narrator: Leadership as the Art of Translating

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr François Cooren