Discourse and Cognition

Name: Discourse and Cognition
Brand: SAGE Publications Inc
SKU: 9780803976962
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ISBN: 9780803976962

by Derek Edwards

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0803976968

ISBN-13 9780803976962

Publisher SAGE Publications Inc

Imprint SAGE Publications Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 18th, 1996

Print length 368 Pages

Weight 670 grams

Product Classification: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Social, group or collective psychology Cognition & cognitive psychology Cognition and cognitive psychology

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The central project of this volume is a reappraisal of some of the great debates in psychology in the light of recent theoretical and empirical developments. The author reviews a range of thought and research to demonstrate how the dominant cognitive approach to psychology has failed.

`For those already familiar with discursive work it will be a joy - Edwards writes with enormous clarity and insight. For psychologists whose work involves an understanding of the relations between language and cognition this book will be essential reading.... This is a demanding book that will repay close attention. It can also be dipped into as a resource for the brilliant reworkings of traditional psychological topic areas, such as emotion, language, cognition, categories, AI, narrative, scripts and developmental psychology. If you want a glimpse into the future of psychology, get this book - the end of cognitivism starts here' - History and Philosophy of Psychology

The central project of this multidisciplinary volume is a wholesale reappraisal of psychological concepts of human action, mental states, language and social interactions. Derek Edwards reviews a wide range of thought and research to demonstrate how the dominant cognitive approach to psychology has failed. He makes a compelling case for language to be best understood as a kind of activity, as discourse.

The argument draws upon ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, linguistic philosophy and social studies of science. These influences underpin a fascinating intellectual survey ranging across cognitivism, discursive psychology, shared knowledge, categories and metaphor, emotion and narrative. The emphasis throughout is on the value of close empirical study of text and talk, through which the topics of mind, world and `who we are' are seen as `ways of talking'.

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