Authority and Power in Social Interaction

Nicolas Bencherki is an associate professor of organizational communication at TÉLUQ Montréal. He holds a dual PhD in communication from the Université de Montréal and in sociology of action from Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on the intersecting roles of organizational communication and materiality in the interactional constitution of membership, strategy and other conventional organizational issues in the setting of non-profit and community-based organizations, with a special interest for the concept of property. His work has been published, among others, in Organization Studies, Human Relations, Management Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Communication.Frederik Matte is an assistant professor of communication at University of Ottawa, Canada. He holds a PhD in communication from Université de Montréal. He studies tensions in the extreme and emergency situations faced by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). He is interested in patient caring relationships, organizational change, intercultural settings and multi-lingual environments as well as ethical issues. He has published in the Journal of Communication, Communication Monographs, Discourse and Communication, and Pragmatics & Society.François Cooren, Ph.D., is a professor at the Université de Montréal, Canada. His research focuses on organizational communication, language and social interaction, as well as communication theory. He is the author of four books: The Organizing Property of Communication (2000), Action and Agency in Dialogue: Passion, Incarnation, and Ventriloquism (2010), Organizational Discourse: Communication and Constitution (2015), as well as The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism (2017, co-authored with Tim Kuhn and Karen Ashcraft). He also edited several volumes published by Oxford University Press, Routledge, John Benjamins and Lawrence Erlbaum, and is the author of more than 60 articles, published in international peer-reviewed journals, as well as more than 40 book chapters. In 2010-2011, he was the president of the International Communication Association (ICA) and was elected fellow of this association in 2013. He is also the current president of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA, 2012-2015), as well as a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

• Introduction: In search for the specific unfolding of authority and powerChapter One: The authority of the "broader context": What's not in the interaction?Chapter Two: The Varieties of (More or Less) Formal AuthorityChapter Three: How institutional authority and routine exertions of power can be mobilized, negotiated and challengedChapter Four: Bodies, faces, physical spaces and the materializations of authorityChapter Five: God, love and the apparently immaterial sources of authorityChapter Six: De-Centering the Analysis: The Authority of Spectators, Journalists and Others