A Theoretical and Analytical Synthesis of Autopoiesis and Sociolinguistics for the Study of Organisational Communication

The purpose of this paper is threefold: Firstly, we propose a systemic view of communication based in autopoiesis, the theory of living systems formulated by Maturana and Varela (1980, 1987). Secondly, we show the links between the underpinning assumptions of autopoiesis and the sociolinguistic approaches of Thirdly, we propose a theoretical and analytical synthesis of autopoiesis and sociolinguistics for the study of organisational communication.