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Beschreibung
This accessible text introduces the key elements of a discursive approach to psychology. This focuses on how discourse - naturally occurring talk and text - can be studied and understood as the accomplishment of social action. Building on discourse analysis, the authors present an integrated discursive action model which leads to a radical reworking of some of psychology's most central concepts - language, cognition, truth, knowledge and reality.

The implications of a discursive perspective for such topics are explored alongside a sustained argument against the perceptual-cognitivist emphasis that currently dominates psychology. A particular theme is the reconceptualization of memory and attribution. The authors examine the communicative and interactional work performed when individuals, with interests, describe and explain past events, construct factual reports and attribute mental states. They draw on a wide range of empirical materials to demonstrate the methods and analysis underpinning their approach.

Reframing fundamental issues of language and mind as social practices realized in discourse, Discursive Psychology offers a profound challenge to existing orthodoxies while also establishing an exciting new agenda in the social and human sciences.

This accessible text introduces the key elements of a discursive approach to psychology. This focuses on how discourse - naturally occurring talk and text - can be studied and understood as the accomplishment of social action. Building on discourse analysis, the authors present an integrated discursive action model which leads to a radical reworking of some of psychology's most central concepts - language, cognition, truth, knowledge and reality.

The implications of a discursive perspective for such topics are explored alongside a sustained argument against the perceptual-cognitivist emphasis that currently dominates psychology. A particular theme is the reconceptualization of memory and attribution. The authors examine the communicative and interactional work performed when individuals, with interests, describe and explain past events, construct factual reports and attribute mental states. They draw on a wide range of empirical materials to demonstrate the methods and analysis underpinning their approach.

Reframing fundamental issues of language and mind as social practices realized in discourse, Discursive Psychology offers a profound challenge to existing orthodoxies while also establishing an exciting new agenda in the social and human sciences.

Über den Autor
Derek Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He is co-author (with N M Mercer) of Common Knowledge (1987) and (with M Billig and others) of Ideological Dilemmas (SAGE, 1988) and co-editor (with D Middleton) of Collective Remembering (SAGE, 1990).

Jonathan Potter is Reader in Discourse Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He is co-author (with P Stringer and M Wetherell) of Social Texts and Context (1984) and (with M Wetherell) of Discourse and Social Psychology (SAGE, 1987) and Mapping the Language of Racism (in press).

Both are members of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group at the University of Loughborough.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
The Social and the Cognitive
Ulric Neissers Memory
Chancellor Lawsons Memory
Texts, Descriptions and Inferences
Description as Attribution
World-Making and Self-Making
Discursive Psychology
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Inquiries in Social Construction series
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780803984431
ISBN-10: 080398443X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Edwards, Derek
Potter, Jonathan
Hersteller: Sage Publications UK
Inquiries in Social Construction series
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Derek Edwards (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2000
Gewicht: 0,306 kg
Artikel-ID: 102450693

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