Discourse and Cognition

Informationen zum Autor Derek Edwards is Reader in Discursive Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He is co-author (with Neil Mercer) of Common Knowledge , (with Jonathan Potter) of Discursive Psychology and (with others) of Ideological Dilemmas . Klappentext Drawing upon ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, linguistic philosophy and social studies of science, Derek Edwards makes a compelling case for language to be best understood as a kind of activity, as discourse. 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'. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis An Informal Introduction Cognitivism and Cognition Discourse and Reality Talk as Action Shared Knowledge Scripts and Dispositions Emotion Categories I Language and Perception Categories II Bodily Experience and Folk Psychology Narrative Stories and Rememberings Membership Children, Animals and Machines

Product details

• Authors: Derek Edwards, Edwards Derek
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.1996
• EAN: 9780803976962
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-7696-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Discourse Analysis;Social Psychology