Hepburn-Wiggins2005
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BibType | ARTICLE |
Key | Hepburn-Wiggins2005 |
Author(s) | Alexa Hepburn, Sally Wiggins |
Title | Developments in discursive psychology |
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Tag(s) | Discursive Psychology |
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Year | 2005 |
Language | English |
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Journal | Discourse & Society |
Volume | 16 |
Number | 5 |
Pages | 595–601 |
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DOI | 10.1177/ 0957926505054937 |
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Abstract
Discursive psychology is the broad title for a range of research done in different disciplinary contexts – communication, language, sociology and psychology. It moves the theoretical and analytic focus from individual cognitive events and processes to situated interaction. This work is critical of, and developing a progressive, analytically based alternative to, mainstream cognitive social psychology. Discursive psychology (occasionally DP) also counters the social psy- chological view of the individual as part of a matrix of abstract social processes, and replaces it with a focus on people’s everyday practices in various institutional settings. This entails an important change in analytic focus; rather than whether, or how accurately, participants’ talk reflects inner and outer events, DP investi- gates how ‘psychology’ and ‘reality’ are produced, dealt with and made relevant by participants in and through interaction.
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