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Talk in organizations: local conversations, wider perspectives

In this paper the relationship between local conversations and wider perspectives in organizations is explored and critiqued initially through an examination of the concept of ‘conversational lamination’ (Boden, 1994). It is argued at the outset that the metaphor of lamination promotes an inherently univocal account of the role and status of conversations in organizational settings. This perspective is challenged through the deployment of counter‐metaphors based upon alternative epistemological assumptions (i.e., critical management, postmodernism, and new science). The implications for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis of thinking about the relationship between localised‐interaction and organizational phenomena in a more plurivocal way are discussed. Boden's work on the notion of lamination is then set in a context, showing it as an appropriate and understandable part of her work on bringing ethnomethodology to life for analysts from many different fields.