posted on 2014-06-30, 15:39authored byJonathan Potter, Derek Edwards
This 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.
History
School
Social Sciences
Department
Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Published in
HUMAN STUDIES
Volume
26
Issue
2
Pages
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.