Discursive psychology
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Discursive psychology
（Inquiries in social construction）
SAGE Publications, 1992
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [181]-195
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Social and the Cognitive
Ulric Neisser's Memory
Chancellor Lawson's Memory
Texts, Descriptions and Inferences
Description as Attribution
World-Making and Self-Making
Discursive Psychology
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