We read much these days about 'linguistic turns' in organisation studies as well as in most of the social sciences. Here we find a book in linguistics with an 'organisational turn'. I am inclined to believe that this book might become a classic.

- Leopold Vansins, Professional Development Institute, Belgium,

François Cooren's first book 'The Organizing Property of Communication' (TOPC) makes an important contribution to the growing literature on fundamental connections between language and organization. The book is crucial reading not only for scholars of organizational communication, but also for sociolinguists, semioticians and sociologists.

- George Cheney, University of Montana-Missoula, University of Waikato, Hamilton NZ, USA,

[...] it would seem impossible to honestly proceed within pragmatics without having first responded to Cooren's critiques and the explanatory claims of his model. The book will also interest the semiotician, communications researcher, sociologist and anthropologist [...]

- Christopher Gothard in Discourse Studies 4(2),