The article examines the role of discourse in organisational sensemaking. By building links between the theorising undertaken within organisational studies and the empirical analysis of multimodal social interaction, it argues for a relational view of sensemaking and investigates how sense is made in and through social interaction in real organisational situations where language use intertwines with embodied actions and the manipulation of artefacts. In particular, the article studies the use of discourse technologies of textual artefacts in sensemaking processes. The data come from training workshops of a Finnish workplace organisation, conducted in order for the employees to delineate the history and future of their organisation with the help of writable papers. The results show how the papers exert agency in the situation by facilitating three specific discursive practices and by enabling and restricting the actions employed in constructing a shared understanding of the organisational reality.

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意义建构中心的文本人工制品：在组织研讨会中使用话语材料资源构建共同理解

本文考察了话语在组织意义建构中的作用。通过在组织研究中进行的理论化与多模态社会互动的实证分析之间建立联系，它论证了意义建构的关系观点，并研究了在真实的组织环境中，意义是如何在社会互动中和通过社会互动产生的，在这种情况下，语言的使用与具体的行为交织在一起对文物的操纵。特别是，本文研究了文本人工制品的话语技术在意义建构过程中的使用。数据来自芬兰工作场所组织的培训研讨会，该研讨会旨在让员工借助可写的文件描绘其组织的历史和未来。