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DTIC ADA148239: The Language of Organizations: The Case of the Navy,

On the surface this is a paper about the Navy. More fundamentally, however, it is about language and the role it plays in generating and maintaining organization. The author explored some ways in which one particular organization (the U.S. Navy) uses language that is unique to that organization. There are words, symbols and modes of discourse that characterize this organization and which are unintelligible outside the organization. The thesis is that every organization, task/activity and social group has its own language (lexicon, sign system, mode of discourse). The facts of linguistic differentiation are apparent, but the determinants of, reasons for, and functions of this fact remain obscure.

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