Authority is a much discussed topic in organizational literature, but its in situ enactment is little investigated. Using the notions of deontic and epistemic authority and using multimodal conversation analysis as a research methodology, the purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical study of authority-in-action. We particularly focus on both sequences of talk and the multimodal resources that are mobilised to ‘do’ authority. Furthermore, as research from non-Western contexts remains rare, we complement insights into authority enactment based on ‘Western’ data by using data that is drawn from a corpus of naturally-occurring video-recorded faculty meetings at an Indian University. Findings indicate that the doing of authority can be made visible by explicating participants’ orientation to their respective deontic and epistemic rights and their invocation of particular identities, which are accomplished by means of a complex intertwining of verbal and non-verbal resources.

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印度会议上对道义和认识权威的多模式颁布

权威是组织文献中讨论最多的话题，但是对它的现场制定却很少进行研究。本文运用道义和认知权威的概念，并将多模式对话分析作为一种研究方法，旨在提供对行动中权威的实证研究。我们特别关注谈话的顺序和动员起来做“权威”的多模式资源。此外，由于非西方背景下的研究仍然很少，我们通过使用来自印度大学自然录制的教师会议的资料集，对基于“西方”数据的权威制定的见解进行补充。