In this new book, margaret wetherell and jonathan potter extend their work on the use of discourse analysis in social science to cover racism and to include issues of social structure, power relations and ideology. Lse has developed lse research online so that users may access research output of. Proposing a classification along the three core dimensions of context proximate or distal, analytic form poststructuralist or interpretiveexplanatory and political stance involved or detached, it examines the ways in which critical. Discourse and social psychology includes chapters on the theoretical roots of discourse analysis in linguistic philosophy, ethnomethodology and semiotics and an overview on the perspectives of discourse analysis and its utility in. The label discourse analysis has been applied in very different ways in the social sciences, and before attempting to explicate discourse analysis as a method it is important to be clear what we mean by it.
This workbook will be invaluable for students across the social sciences who need to learn how to analyze discourse. Margaret wetherell and jonathan potter discourse and social psychology silencing binaries. It would analyse the images carefully trying to unearth the claims they are making and how they are making them. Discursive psychology contributions to qualitative research. Mar 22, 2001 this workbook will be invaluable for students across the social sciences who need to learn how to analyze discourse. In this exciting new book, margaret wetherell and jonathan potter extend their work on the use of discourse analysis to tackle racism and issues of social structure, power relations and idology. Wetherell and potter 1988, talja 1999 examined interviews as social texts. The interpretative repertoire is a key component of this form of discourse analysis as wetherell and potter 1988, p. A critical discourse analysis of elt materials in gender. Furthermore, the author argues that discursive psychologys views on gender are convincing and explain more than other perspectives of gender. The use of conversation analysis in developing a feminist perspective of sexual refusal celia kitzinger and hannah frith part three. This article focuses on schegloffs 1997 comments on critical discourse analysis and evaluates their force in relation to the analysis of a segment of a group discussion with three young white middleclass men concerning an episode in one of the participants recent sexual history. Margaret wetherell born 24 november 1954, is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.
The interpretative repertoire is a key component of this form of discourse analysisas wetherell and potter 1988, p. While this variation may be problematic for psychologists attempting to access accurate cognitions, this variation is to be expected in dp. A model of discourse in action jonathan potter, derek. Pdf discourse and social psychology silencing binaries. Noncritical approaches include sinclair and coulthards analysis of classroom discourse, the ethno methodological approach to conversation analysis, labov and fanshels study of the discourse of the psychotherapeutic interview, and potter and wetherell s use of discourse analysis. Jan 28, 2020 discourse analysis is a broad term for the study of the ways in which language is used between people, both in written texts and spoken contexts. Discourse analysis and the identification of interpretative repertoires m wetherell, j potter analysing everyday explanation. Discourse analysis as a way of analysing naturally occurring talk. A critique of six analytic shortcomings charles antaki, michael billig, derek edwards, jonathan potter discourse and rhetoric group department of social sciences loughborough university loughborough leicestershire, le11 3tu c. Without a clear understanding of discourse and da it is difficult to comprehend important research findings and impossible to use da as a research strategy. Beyond attitudes and behaviour, cowritten with jonathan potter, was very influential, particularly in social psychology, though also in other fields e. Discourses and discourse analysis sage research methods. Despite the apparent indebtedness of many such methods of discourse analysis to foucault, there exists no strictly foucauldian method of analysing discourse. This paper discusses some principles of critical discourse analysis, such as the explicit sociopolitical stance of discourse analysts, and a focus on dominance.
Other forms of discourse analysis also aim at somewhatdifferent research questions for example, foucauldian discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, or genre analysis e. Whereas other areas of language study might look at individual parts of language, such as words and phrases grammar or the pieces that make up words linguistics, discourse analysis looks at a. In this paper, the author explores the different views on gender and the nature of gender as discourse. In discourse analysis, interview data are analyzed at a. Introduces the idea of discourses and discourse analysis it begins with a considerations of some of discourse and social psychology. Discourse analysis in social psychology is a mixture of methods and theories including ethnomethodology, semiology and conversation analysis and it seeks to incorporate insights from a variety of discourse analytic. In the hands of potter and wetherell, discourse analysis offers us reconceptualizations of many. Discourse analysis was performed using social positioning theory to explore how pharmacists. Discourse and social psychology sage publications ltd. Analysis essentially consists of a detailed and repeated reading of the discourse against the background of the discourseanalytic perspective. Since this is a complex, multidisciplinaryand as vet underdevelopeddomain of study, which one may call sociopolitical discourse analysis, only the most relevant dimensions of this domain can be addressed here. Five substantive chapters are concerned with the key concepts of social psychology. Chapter two overviews the perspective of discourse analysis and illustrates its utility in studying attitudes. Their focus is on institutional and social structures that frame specific discursive events and the ways.
Key issues in this regard revolve around the themes of. Discourse and social psychology silencing binaries. The books clarity means that it has the power to influence a lot of people illatease with traditional social psychology but unimpressed with or simply bewildered by other alternatives on offer. After 4 years of temporary contracts at st andrews he was offered a post at loughborough university where he taught until july 2015, first as lecturer, then reader. While this guide is aimed at providing a useful starting point for novices, the best way to become familiar with, and successful at, discourse analysis is to throw yourself into the data and practice. The aim of the book is to introduce students to the major figures in the field, and to some of their writings which, combined with the interspersed editorial commentaries, should allow students to understand the key epistemological and methodological issues of. Her basic assumption about discourse analysis is that interview answers are manufactured out of preexisting linguistic resources with properties of their own. Discourse analysis an overview sciencedirect topics. Sage, 1987, with margaret wetherell, discursive psychology sage, 1992, with. Pdf discourse analysis and constructionist approaches. My work in the 1980s with jonathan potter and other colleagues established the field of discourse analysis in social psychology and in social research more widely. A general inductive approach for analyzing qualitative. Potter and wetherell have genuinely presented us with a different way of working in social.
Discourse analysis and discursive psychology jonathan potter. Critically evaluate the understanding of gender as discourse. Such a discourse analysis would aim to understand the way in which these images create particular perspectives of the social world. Submission to discourse analysis online discourse analysis means doing analysis.
It is a term for a broad area of language study, containing a diversity of approaches with different epistemological roots, and very different methodologies, but, in general, can be defined as a set of methods and theories for investigating language in use and language in social contexts wetherell et al. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. Table 1 distinguishes between studies that focus on domains of discourse, studies. Fruitfulness is another concept used for establishing discourse validity. This paper seeks to contribute towards a more explicit and candid discussion of the methodologies of discourse analysis within critical geopolitics. In this article,inductive analysis refers to approaches that primarily use detailed readings of. Fairclough 2001 identified two main purposes in designing the cda framework of discourse and language, one is more.
Potter margaret wetherell although much has been written about discourse analysis in recent years little of it has been intelligible to. Mapping the language of racism columbia university press. How to conduct a psychological discourse analysis lancaster. Using a stepbystep approach, students are introduced to the principal range of methods for analyzing different types of text, taken through key analytic concepts, offered specimen analyses and given the opportunity to try out analytic concepts on new data. The topics of race and racism are often treated narrowly and unimaginatively in social scientific literature. Discourse analysis a primer katie macmillan new medi. In this exciting new book, margaret wetherell and jonathan potter extend their work on the use of discourse analysis to tackle racism and issues of social structure, power relations and. Discourse analysis da is becoming an increasingly popular research strategy for researchers in various disciplines, yet it evades a common understanding and systematic approach. A model of discourse in action loughborough university. Potter and edwards write in the area of discourse analysis, an approach to social. The inductive approach is a systematic procedure for analyzing qualitative data in which the analysis is likely to be guided by specific evaluation objectives. Sage antaki, c, billig, m, edwards, d and potter, j 2002 discourse analysis means doing analysis. Beyond attitudes and behaviour, cowritten with jonathan potter, was very influential, particularly in social psychology, though also in other.
Jonathan potter is reader in discourse analysis at loughborough university. In this new book, margaret wetherell and jonathan potter extend their work on the use of discourse analysis in social science to cover racism and to include issues of social structure, power. Mind, selves and sensemaking editors introduction margaret wetherell unfolding discourse analysis jonathan potter and margaret wetherell discursive, rhetorical and ideological messages. Discourse analysis in research on aging canadian journal. From a lecture given in 2015 by graham r gibbs at the university of huddersfield this session introduces the idea of discourses and discourse analysis. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. The topics of race and racism are often treated narrowly in social psychological and other social scientific literature, usually being presented as subcategories of stereotyping or prejudice or attitudes. A discursive analysis concerning information on adhd. Discourse analysis is concerned with the ways in which language constructs and mediates social and psychological realities. I have published many articles and books in this area.
There is less written on methodological aspects of this style of discourse work. We describe discourse analysis from the perspective of discursive psychology and identify the basic features of discourse analysis. This article focuses on schegloffs 1997 comments on critical discourse analysis and evaluates their force in relation to the analysis of a segment of a group discussion with three young white mi. In studying how discourse shapes organizing processes, researchers engage with discourse in different ways. May 06, 2015 from a lecture given in 2015 by graham r gibbs at the university of huddersfield this session introduces the idea of discourses and discourse analysis. Potter and edwards write in the area of discourse analysis, an approach to social psychology which takes a critical view of traditional social psychology and which emphasises the role of language discourse in everyday life. It gave rise to the area or subdiscipline now described as discursive psychology see entry, but the original term is still widely used to refer to a research method. Pdf discourse analysis as a way of analysing naturally. Wetherell and potter 1992 believed that discourse analysis focuses on the activities of justification, rationalisation, categorization, attribution, making. A critical and historical investigation henry lennon, phd student b30482, sheffield hallam university. Pdf on jan 1, 2011, j potter and others published discursive. Thus, discourse analysis involves a theoretical way of understanding the nature of. Discourse analysis has come to represent something of a growth industry in both research and critical psychology.
The perspective of dasp was initially described by potter and wetherell 1987. Robin ion, kate smith, jim moir and sheila nimmo, accounting for actions and omissions. Discourse and social psychology includes chapters on the theoretical roots of discourse analysis in linguistic philosophy, ethnomethodology and semiotics and an overview on the perspectives of discourse analysis and its utility in studying attitudes. In fact, discursive psychologists have argued that the apparent stability of. Discursive psychology hedwig te molder wageningen university and university of twente, the netherlands discursivepsychologydp. Discourse and social psychology will be indispensable reading for undergraduates and teachers in the fields of social psychology and communications studies, but will also be relevant to the discipline of sociology, linguistics, anthropology, semiotics, literary studies and history. Epub book discourse and social psychology beyond attitudes.
The discourse analytic method sanna talja university of tampere, finland the article presents discourse analysis as a method of analyzing qualitative interview data. A recent approach to the investigation of the role of language and gender is critical discourse analysis. Validity in discourse analysis can be determined by the examination of coherence in what has been presented. The extension to the social psychology of discourse only took place in the 1980s for recent discussions, see, e. Pdf discourse and social psychology download full pdf. Methodology foucauldian discourse analysis hereafter referred to as fda is a form of discourse analysis. The paper ends by outlining some ways in which silence can be approached from conversation analytic and discourse analytic perspectives, and raising some reflexive questions about morgans own construction of gender and silence.
Repertoires could be seen as building blocks speakers use for constructing versions of. Discourse analysis can be used to interpret visual material such as advertisement, photography, or film. The aim of discourse analysis is to study the entire discourse what is said, in what way, by whom and for what purpose hogg and vaughan 1995 p509. The following five substantive chapters deal with concepts which are at the heart of the study of social psychology. In wetherell et al eds discourse theory and practice london. To critique modernism, postmodernists have chiefly employed discourse analysis da, an. The books clarity means that it has the power to influence a lot of people illatease with. We disagree with both her identification of binaries in discourse and social psychology and their claimed consequences. This work suggested the culture discourse highlights naturally occurring differences and. Pdf discursive psychology and discourse analysis researchgate. Providing both the practical steps for doing discourse analysis and the theoretical justifications for those steps, this book shows students how the social w. A general inductive approach for analyzing qualitative evaluation data david r. Discourse theory and practice is much more than a collection of key classic articles and papers in the field of discourse analysis. The term discourse analysis is mostly associated with developments in social psychology in the late twentieth century e.
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