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Discursive Psychology

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 080398443X
ISBN-13 9780803984431
Publisher Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Apr 8th, 1992
Print length 208 Pages
Weight 314 grams
Dimensions 21.60 x 14.20 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification: PsycholinguisticsAnthropology
Ksh 10,600.00
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Uses discourse analytic terms to examine some of psychology's most fundamental concepts. Focusing on memory and attribution, the book shows the way their compartmentalization and failure to theorize adequately about language usage in everyday social practices has led to important weaknesses.
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.


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