In this context, we suggest that the separation between technical and social issues may constitute a discursive strategy for concealing problems and barriers that could impede the continuity of the project during pre-implementation phases.
This paper analyses the discursive realisation of on-site problem-solving encounters in a large international construction project in Hong Kong.
Hayek's criticisms shared the Austrian cognitive (and practical) perspective, in his case to consider the market an efficient and reliable information-communication mechanism but the solution to the coordination problem is non-discursive to the extent that all information is communicated by relative prices.
But with this type, some new – as yet not entirely resolved – problems emerge: to achieve discursive representation, organizers do not only need to distinguish all relevant views and discourses in advance, but also to identify and recruit individuals representing the views and discourses.
Pettit (2001) coined the term of discursive dilemma to highlight the fact that such problem can arise in all situations in which a group of individuals needs to reach a common stance on multiple propositions.
Our constant comparative analysis indicated that Danny's problem-solving trajectory is mediated by discursive practices oriented towards the construction and negotiation of his identity.
The source of the problem may be the difficulty in classifying discursive content a classificatory task that is an urgent one for pluralists.
The fourth type, discursive representation, has been developed to solve this 'scale-problem' of quantitative representation.
The game design affordances and the narrativized problem structure of WoW seeds participation structures that are inherently discursive in nature.
In the following section, we further provide an analysis of Danny's constructed and negotiated identities as he engaged in problem-solving based on the constant comparative categories of domain, disquisitional, and discursive practices.
A combination of methods and several data sources are used to interpret the interlocutors' communications and relationships, and show how certain items, for instance problem, issue and if, as well as evaluative items such as metaphors and idioms, index discursive practices and patterns during problem solving.
