Conversation and Cognition / Edition 1

by Hedwig te Molder, Jonathan Potter

Overview

Written by some of the leading figures in the fields of conversation analysis, discursive psychology and ethnomethodology, this book looks at the challenging implications of new discourse approaches to the topic of cognition. It provides a survey of cutting-edge debates about discourse and cognition as well as a range of illustrative analyses which show how the notion of cognition can be reworked. This comprehensive and accessible book will make an important contribution to the development of a more integrated approach to language and cognition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521793698
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/07/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Hedwig te Molder is a senior lecturer in Communication Science in the Social Science Department at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has published on a number of topics including government communicators' talk, helpline interaction and computer-mediated communication.

Jonathan Potter is Professor of Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences Department at Loughborough University. He has published ten books, including Discourse and Social Psychology (with Margaret Wetherell, 1987), more than forty book chapters and sixty journal articles.

Table of Contents

1. Talking cognition: mapping and making the terrain Jonathan Potter and Hedwig te Molder; Part I. The Interface between Cognition and Action: 2. Validating 'observations' in discourse studies: a methodological reason for attention to cognition Robert Sanders; 3. Language without mind Jeff Coulter; 4. Using participants' video stimulated comments to complement analyses of interactional practices Anita Pomerantz; 5. From paradigm to prototype and back again: interactive aspects of 'cognitive processing' in stardardized survey interviews Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas Maynard; 6. A cognitive agnostic in conversation analysis: when do strategies affect spoken interaction? Robert Hopper; Part II. Cognition in Action: 7. Is confusion a state of mind? Paul Drew; 8. Cognition in discourse John Heritage; 9. From process to practice: language, interaction and 'flashbulb' memories Robin Wooffitt; 10. 'My memory has been shredded': a non-cognitivist of 'mental' phenomena Michael Lynch and David Bogen; 11. Discursive psychology, mental states and descriptions Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter.

Editorial Reviews

"This book has the potential to do in psychology what the classic edited works in CA (e.g. Atkinson and Heritage, 1984; Drew and Heritage 1992) have done in sociology. However, it has also initiated a serious cross-fertilization of ideas between interaction researchers in the disciplines of (primarily) sociology and psychology, and will bring concerns and ideas developed in DP to new audiences."
Discourse Studies

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