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Research interests

My current research focuses on the nature of popular management discourse and the role it plays in legitimating, justifying and internalising contemporary capitalist ideology. I am not so much concerned with assessing the nature of this ideology —there are excellent works on the subject from scholars in sociology and critical management studies— as I am with understanding how it is strategically legitimated in discourse. In my work, I explore what other genres, styles and themes are drawn upon and recontextualised to create the "expert system" of managerial knowledge.

I have a somewhat odd mix of interests, having arrived to discourse analysis from a background in philosophy and sociology. My main concern, globally speaking, has to do with the processes involved in legitimation. I acutely feel the need for serious interdisciplinary work on the matter, combining the insights of sociological and philosophical thought with more concrete psychological approaches to how people internalise the beliefs that lead them to assent and acquiesce to power. Few things say as much about the current condition of social science that the fact that these topics were hotly investigated a few decades ago, with fascinating experimental work such as that conducted by Zimbardo or Milgram, while today such research is almost non-existant.

Writings

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Morales, O. A. & Lischinsky, A. (forthcoming) Visual racism in Spanish high school education textbooks. Forthcoming in Discourse & Society. Available soon
Lischinsky, A. (2008) Examples as persuasive argument in Popular Management Literature. Discourse & Communication, 2(3):243–69. Available online
Morales, O. A. & Lischinsky, A. (2008) Discriminación a través de las ilustraciones de libros de texto de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria en España. Discurso & Sociedad, 2(1):115-152. Available online
Lischinsky, A. (2007) Un caso de doble discurso: contraargumentos del gobierno al racismo discursivo de la oposicion parlamentaria. Discurso & Sociedad, 1(1):3-65. Available online

Contributed papers and presentations

Lischinsky, A. (2008) Titling practices in popular management books. Paper to be read at the conference on Interpersonality in Written Academic Discourse: Perspective across Languages and Cultures, Jaca, December 11–13. Presentation and paper available soon
Lischinsky, A. & Antonini, C. (2008) Dollars are green too. A discourse-based approach to the analysis of corporate social responsibility report. Paper to be read at the II European Communication Conference on Communication Policies and Culture in Europe, Barcelona, November 26–28. Presentation and paper available soon
Lischinsky, A. (2008) Lo que el dinero no puede comprar. Higiene verbal en la recepción de la jerga gerencial. Paper to be read at the XII Jornadas Nacionales de Investigadores en Comunicación, Rosario, October 16–18. Presentation and paper available soon
Lischinsky, A. (2008) At the crossroads of language, culture and class: responses to managerial jargon in Spanish. Paper read at the Spanish in Society Conference 2008 on Spanish at Work, Swansea, March 27–29 2008. Presentation and paper available soon
Lischinsky, A. (2007) Examples as persuasive argument in popular management literature. Paper read at the XIV Suzanne Hübner International Seminar on Linguistics and persuasive communication, Zaragoza, November 14-17, 2007. Presentation and paper available soon
Lischinsky, A. (2007) 'Show, don't tell': Racism in the visual depiction of the other in high school textbooks. Paper read at the II Conference on Language Ideologies and Media Discourse, Leeds, September 3-5 2007. Presentation and paper available soon.

Unpublished dissertations

Lischinsky, A. (2003) Transformaciones del trabajo en la sociedad del conocimiento: El caso del management. Unpublished DEA dissertation, USal (Salamanca, Spain). Supervisor: Pedro Cordero Quiñones
Lischinsky, A. (2000) La idea de historia natural en la obra de Theodor W. Adorno. Unpublished BA dissertation, UCA (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Supervisor: Marisa Mosto

Drafts and working papers

Lischinsky, A. (2008) The construction of expert knowledge in Popular Management Literature. Available online. Preliminary draft, not for citation or quotation. Comments welcome