Explaining and Arguing : The Social Organization of Accounts
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
080398605X
ISBN-13
9780803986053
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint
Sage Publications Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 11th, 1994
Print length
222 Pages
Weight
550 grams
Product Classification:
Semantics, discourse analysis, etcCommunication studies
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This text offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing. Illuminating the range of contemporary approaches with concrete examples, the author's concern is to test theory against practice.
Explanations identify causes, back up claims and justify actions. Social scientists study them because they reveal how people understand and construct their worlds. This stimulating book offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing.
Using concrete examples to illuminate the range of contemporary approaches, Antaki′s concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a picture of explanation as a richly social achievement of speaker and audience, involving a balance between delicate manoeuvre and the exercise of discursive power.
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