LANGUAGE AND WORK - A FEW PERSPECTIVES

This panorama of the many sorts of studies on the relations between la nguage and work draws attention to both a renewal of interest in old q uestions and the development of new fields of inquiry. It is shown how the problems related to what are considered to be the essential prope rties of language crop up in studies of work. Language must be examine d in order to understand work not just as a contextualized, cooperativ e activity but also as a normative activity under constraints.