Explaining and Arguing - The Social Organization of Accounts

Informationen zum Autor Charles Antaki is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is editor of Analyzing Everyday Explanation (SAGE, 1988). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Attributing Cause Causal Talk Explanations in Exoneration Explanation Slots Storied Accounts Explanatory Discourse Making Claims in Logic and Rhetoric Backing Claims in Quarrels Conclusion Explaining and Arguing in Participants¿ Own Words

Product details

• Authors: Charles Antaki, Antaki Charles
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.1994
• EAN: 9780803986053
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8605-3
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Interpersonal Communication;Social Psychology