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Discursive psychology

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posted on 2012-03-19, 11:54 authored by Derek Edwards, Jonathan Potter
Discursive psychology (DP) is the application of discourse analytic principles to psychological topics. In psychology’s dominant ‘cognitivist’ paradigm, individuals build mental representations of the world on the basis of innate mental structures and perceptual experience, and talk on that basis. The categories and content of discourse are considered to be a reflection, refracted through various kinds of error and distortion, of how the world is perceived to be. In contrast, DP begins with discourse (talk and text), both theoretically and empirically. Discourse is approached, not as the outcome of mental states and cognitive processes, but as a domain of action in its own right. [Continues...]

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School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Citation

EDWARDS, D. and POTTER, J., 2001. Discursive psychology. IN: McHoul, A.W. and Rapley, M. (eds.) How to analyse talk in institutional settings: a casebook of methods. London: Continuum, pp. 12 - 24.

Publisher

The Continuum International Publishing Group © Alec McHoul, Mark Rapley and contributors

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2001

Notes

This book chapter was published in the book How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings: A Casebook of Methods. The publisher's website is at: http://www.continuumbooks.com/

ISBN

0826454631;082645464X

Language

  • en