PAPÉIS ORGANIZACIONAIS: O QUE A PRAGMÁTICA DA LINGUAGEM NOS LEVA A PENSAR.

This paper suggests a new reflection on the model of role adoptions in organizations, by Katz and Kahn (1987), in a theoretical confrontation this role with pragmatics, especially the Speech Act Theory (AUSTIN, 1990). The study is justified by a lack of works that associate the nature of the speech act with theoretical explorations on organizations. The text presents each theoretical axis of the reflection: the model of roles and pragmatics. It then analyzes the way in which language, within the concept adopted in this study, might contribute to a re-examination of the theory of roles, highlighting the fact that the consideration of language is a healthy complication for the adoption of roles in organizations, as it reveals that the expectation of role is fulfilled only in the speech act, which is imprecise and whose meanings are circumstantial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]