"Discovering, making, and communicating meaning is our full-time job. We do it from the
moment we are born until the moment we die."
(Mark Johnson, 2007: 17)
As researchers, everything we do is concerned explicitly and implicitly with meaning -
meanings of actions, intentions, texts, words, gestures, theories, and so on. However,
making meaning is not just an academic or an intellectual activity, it is, as in the
epigraph quote, an integral part of life. Meaning making is fundamentally embodied because
there is never a time when we are not a sensate being in the world.
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Ann L. Cunliffe
Anderson School of Management, USA
A.L.Cunliffe@leeds.ac.uk
Karen Locke
College of William and Mary , USA
alcqrm@mgt.unm.edu
