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posted on 2014-06-30, 15:39 authored by Jonathan Potter, Derek EdwardsThis paper responds to, and comments on, Coulter’s (1999) critique of discursive
psychology with particular reference to how cognition is conceptualised theoretically and
analytically. It first identifies a number of basic misreadings of discursive psychological
writings, which distort and, at times, reverse its position on the status of cognition. Second,
it reviews the main ways in which cognition, mental states, and thoughts have been analytically
conceptualised in discursive psychology (respecification of topics from mainstream
psychology, studies of the psychological thesaurus in action, and studies of the way psychological
issues are managed). Third, it considers two of Coulter’s substantive issues: the role
of correct usage and the role of conceptual vs. empirical analysis. A series of problems are
identified with Coulter’s development of both of these issues.
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HUMAN STUDIESVolume
26Issue
2Pages
165 - 181 (17)Citation
POTTER, J. and EDWARDS, D., 2003. Rethinking cognition: on Coulter on discourse and mind. Human Studies, 26 (2), pp.165-181.Publisher
© Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer)Version
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Publication date
2003Notes
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1024008104438ISSN
0163-8548eISSN
1572-851XPublisher version
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- en