EdwardsPotter1993
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Derek Edwards, Jonathan Potter |
| Title | Language and Causation: A Discourse Analytical Approach to Description and Attribution |
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| Tag(s) | Discursive Psychology |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Journal | Psychological Review |
| Volume | 100 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 23–41 |
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| DOI | 10.1037/0033-295X.100.1.23 |
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Abstract
Everyday explanations of human actions have been studied as event perception, with language part of method, used by experimenters for describing events and obtaining causal judgments from Ss. Recently, language has acquired theoretical importance as the medium of causal thinking. Two developments are the linguistic category model of T. K. Au (1986), R. Brown and D. Fish (1983), and K. Fiedler and G. R. Semin (1988) and the conversational model of W. Turnbull and B. R. Slugoski (1988) and D. J. Hilton (1990). Three areas of weaknesses are identified: the relation between linguistic and psychological analysis, the nature of ordinary discourse, and the action orientation of event descriptions. A discursive action model is proposed for investigating everyday causal attribution. Although a cognitive psychology of discursive attribution is considered feasible, this must follow a reconceptualization of language as social action.
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