François Cooren, Ph.D, is a French and Canadian communication scholar and was, from 2005 to 2008, the editor of ''

Communication Theory Communication theory is a proposed description of communication phenomena, the relationships among them, a storyline describing these relationships, and an argument for these three elements. Communication theory provides a way of talking about a ...

''. He completed his Ph.D. at th
Department of communication
of the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...

in 1996, under the supervision of

James R. Taylor James Renwick Taylor (1928 - 2022), sometimes known as Jim Taylor, was a Canadian academic and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Communication of the Université de Montréal, which he founded with Annie Méar and André H. Caron Ed.D in the ...

. He was chairman of that same department from 2006 to 2015, where he is full professor. Cooren also completed a postdoc at the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, in Belgium. Cooren is former President of the

International Communication Association The International Communication Association (ICA) is an academic association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human and mediated communication. ICA communicates within the association and with ot ...

(2010-2011), an ICA fellow since 2013 and a NCA distinguished scholar since 2017. Cooren's research mainly focuses on organisational communication in mundane and emergency situations. He is part of what has come to be known in the field as the , which proposes communication as the "site and surface" of organizations, meaning that the latter emerge from and are maintained by communication processes. This parts from what could be called conventional organizational communication, which views communication as a phenomenon taking place in pre-existing organizations. That particular point of view, inspired by the works of Taylor and Van Every,Taylor, James R. and Elizabth Van Every (2000). ''The Emergent Organization: Communication as its Site and Surface.'' Mahwah, NJ:Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. Weick and others, leads Cooren to use interaction analysis and conversation analysis as his main source of data, although, whereas other interaction or conversation analysts do not seek to explain anything beyond the observed interaction, Cooren, following the works of

Harold Garfinkel Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011) was an American sociologist and ethnomethodologist, who taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. Having developed and established ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociolo ...

or even

Gabriel Tarde Gabriel Tarde (; in full Jean-Gabriel De Tarde; 12 March 1843 – 13 May 1904) was a French sociologist, criminologist and social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small psychological interactions among individuals (much as ...

, uses the micro - the interactions - to find an explanation to what takes place at the macro - organizational - level.

Selected bibliography

* Cooren, F. (2010). Action and agency in dialogue: Passion, incarnation and ventriloquism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. * Cooren, F. (Ed.) (2006). ''Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Board Meeting.'' Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. * Cooren, F., J. R. Taylor, & E. J. Van Every (Eds.) (2006). ''Communication as organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations In the dynamic of text and conversation.'' Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. * Cooren, F. (2000). ''The Organizing Property of Communication.'' Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

External links

François Cooren's official page on his department's websiteThe Language, organization and governance research group, of which François Cooren is a member

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