Marc Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9313-7756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Mental Health Establishes ‘Vulnerability’ as the Basis for Support from a Housing Helpline: Self-Descriptions and Diagnostic Categories
In the UK, there is a greater prospect of receiving housing support if one is considered ‘vulnerable’—that is, at unusual risk. However, there can be a disparity between applicant and provider in the assessment of whether the applicant is indeed vulnerable. We investigate how one particular criterion, mental health, is constructed to reach the required threshold of “vulnerability.” On the one hand, callers brought up their mental health either (a…
The Role of Alcohol in Initial Help-Seeking Telephone Calls About Domestic Violence to the Police
This article investigates how domestic violence and abuse (DVA), its underreporting and its links with alcohol consumption, manifest in and impact the outcome of help-seeking telephone calls to U.K.-based police services. Conversation analysis of call-takers’ questions about alcohol found that they either (a) focused only on the perpetrator's drinking, and occurred after informing callers that help was being dispatched, or (b) targeted both victi…
In barbarous times and in uncivilized countries”: Two centuries of the evolving uncivil in the Hansard Corpus
The ways in which politicians have discussed who, what, and where was considered “uncivilized’” across the past two centuries gives an insight into how speakers in a position of authority classified and constructed the world around them, and how those in power in Britain see the country and themselves. This article uses the Hansard Corpus 1803–2003 of speeches in the UK Parliament alongside data from the Historical Thesaurus of English to analyse…
Somewhere to turn to: Signposting in service provision
This article investigates how members of the public are guided or ‘signposted’ out of organisations that they have contacted to third-party agencies. Using conversation analysis, we examine the interactional practices professionals use to signpost callers to external organisations when their concerns do not fit within the remit of the present service. Drawing on a corpus of over 500 calls and meetings at five different institutions in the UK (inc…
Characterological formulations of persons in neighbourhood complaint sequences
This article shows how speakers mobilise characterological formulations of people and, particularly, ‘types’ of persons, in social action. We extend previous work in discursive psychology, in which notions of self or others’ identity have been well-studied as categorial practices, by focusing specifically on the occasioned use of ‘[descriptor] person’ formulations which index the characteristics of people. Drawing on a British corpus of 315 telep…
Introduction to Special Issue on Discursive Psychology
Since its inception in 1987, Discursive Psychology (DP) has developed both methodologically, for instance by drawing closer to Conversation Analysis, and theoretically, by building a body of knowledge which outlines the discursive accomplishment of mind-world relations. One of DP’s contributions to psychology consists in the respecification of mainstream topics (like attitudes, identity, memory, and emotions). This editorial outlines the meta-the…
Problems in the neighbourhood: Formulating noise complaints across dispute resolution services
When people are in dispute with their neighbours, there are multiple routes to resolution, and different services have a range of remits to support it. This article explores how noise complaints are reported to dispute resolution mediation and local council environmental services in the United Kingdom. A collection of 315 recorded telephone calls were transcribed and analysed using discursive psychology, underpinned by conversation analytic metho…
Patients' accounts of memory lapses in interactions between neurologists and patients with functional memory disorders
One of the most commonly made diagnoses in secondary care memory services is functional memory disorder (FMD). FMD is non-progressive and characterised by persistent worries about memory failures without objective evidence of cognitive impairment. This study explores how patients with FMD present their memory concerns. Utilizing video recordings of consultations between patients and neurologists in a memory clinic, we show that FMD patients accou…
The conversational rollercoaster: Conversation analysis and the public science of talk
How does talk work, and can we engage the public in a dialogue about the scientific study of talk? This article presents a history, critical evaluation and empirical illustration of the public science of talk. We chart the public ethos of conversation analysis that treats talk as an inherently public phenomenon and its transcribed recordings as public data. We examine the inherent contradictions that conversation analysis is simultaneously obscur…
Schema theory in stylistics
'The Rigid Embrace of the Narrow House': Premature Burial & The Signs of Death
Imagine, if you will, an earlier era when people knew enough about death transadt the business of society-to cover the corpse, bury the dead, transmit authority.1 In those days death was a simple and an irreversible process, and medical intervention was limited in scope and effectiveness. The dying person might suffer from physical pain, emotional loss, and fear of an afterlife, but some peculiarly modem anxieties did not exist. He or she did not…
Introduction to Special Issue on Discursive Psychology
Since its inception in 1987, Discursive Psychology (DP) has developed both methodologically, for instance by drawing closer to Conversation Analysis, and theoretically, by building a body of knowledge which outlines the discursive accomplishment of mind-world relations. One of DP’s contributions to psychology consists in the respecification of mainstream topics (like attitudes, identity, memory, and emotions). This editorial outlines the meta-the…
The conversational rollercoaster: Conversation analysis and the public science of talk
How does talk work, and can we engage the public in a dialogue about the scientific study of talk? This article presents a history, critical evaluation and empirical illustration of the public science of talk. We chart the public ethos of conversation analysis that treats talk as an inherently public phenomenon and its transcribed recordings as public data. We examine the inherent contradictions that conversation analysis is simultaneously obscur…
Characterological formulations of persons in neighbourhood complaint sequences
This article shows how speakers mobilise characterological formulations of people and, particularly, ‘types’ of persons, in social action. We extend previous work in discursive psychology, in which notions of self or others’ identity have been well-studied as categorial practices, by focusing specifically on the occasioned use of ‘[descriptor] person’ formulations which index the characteristics of people. Drawing on a British corpus of 315 telep…
The Role of Alcohol in Initial Help-Seeking Telephone Calls About Domestic Violence to the Police
This article investigates how domestic violence and abuse (DVA), its underreporting and its links with alcohol consumption, manifest in and impact the outcome of help-seeking telephone calls to U.K.-based police services. Conversation analysis of call-takers’ questions about alcohol found that they either (a) focused only on the perpetrator's drinking, and occurred after informing callers that help was being dispatched, or (b) targeted both victi…
In barbarous times and in uncivilized countries”: Two centuries of the evolving uncivil in the Hansard Corpus
The ways in which politicians have discussed who, what, and where was considered “uncivilized’” across the past two centuries gives an insight into how speakers in a position of authority classified and constructed the world around them, and how those in power in Britain see the country and themselves. This article uses the Hansard Corpus 1803–2003 of speeches in the UK Parliament alongside data from the Historical Thesaurus of English to analyse…
Problems in the neighbourhood: Formulating noise complaints across dispute resolution services
When people are in dispute with their neighbours, there are multiple routes to resolution, and different services have a range of remits to support it. This article explores how noise complaints are reported to dispute resolution mediation and local council environmental services in the United Kingdom. A collection of 315 recorded telephone calls were transcribed and analysed using discursive psychology, underpinned by conversation analytic metho…
Patients' accounts of memory lapses in interactions between neurologists and patients with functional memory disorders
One of the most commonly made diagnoses in secondary care memory services is functional memory disorder (FMD). FMD is non-progressive and characterised by persistent worries about memory failures without objective evidence of cognitive impairment. This study explores how patients with FMD present their memory concerns. Utilizing video recordings of consultations between patients and neurologists in a memory clinic, we show that FMD patients accou…
'The Rigid Embrace of the Narrow House': Premature Burial & The Signs of Death
Imagine, if you will, an earlier era when people knew enough about death transadt the business of society-to cover the corpse, bury the dead, transmit authority.1 In those days death was a simple and an irreversible process, and medical intervention was limited in scope and effectiveness. The dying person might suffer from physical pain, emotional loss, and fear of an afterlife, but some peculiarly modem anxieties did not exist. He or she did not…
Schema theory in stylistics
The conversational rollercoaster: Conversation analysis and the public science of talk
How does talk work, and can we engage the public in a dialogue about the scientific study of talk? This article presents a history, critical evaluation and empirical illustration of the public science of talk. We chart the public ethos of conversation analysis that treats talk as an inherently public phenomenon and its transcribed recordings as public data. We examine the inherent contradictions that conversation analysis is simultaneously obscur…
Problems in the neighbourhood: Formulating noise complaints across dispute resolution services
When people are in dispute with their neighbours, there are multiple routes to resolution, and different services have a range of remits to support it. This article explores how noise complaints are reported to dispute resolution mediation and local council environmental services in the United Kingdom. A collection of 315 recorded telephone calls were transcribed and analysed using discursive psychology, underpinned by conversation analytic metho…
Patients' accounts of memory lapses in interactions between neurologists and patients with functional memory disorders
One of the most commonly made diagnoses in secondary care memory services is functional memory disorder (FMD). FMD is non-progressive and characterised by persistent worries about memory failures without objective evidence of cognitive impairment. This study explores how patients with FMD present their memory concerns. Utilizing video recordings of consultations between patients and neurologists in a memory clinic, we show that FMD patients accou…
Characterological formulations of persons in neighbourhood complaint sequences
This article shows how speakers mobilise characterological formulations of people and, particularly, ‘types’ of persons, in social action. We extend previous work in discursive psychology, in which notions of self or others’ identity have been well-studied as categorial practices, by focusing specifically on the occasioned use of ‘[descriptor] person’ formulations which index the characteristics of people. Drawing on a British corpus of 315 telep…
Introduction to Special Issue on Discursive Psychology
Since its inception in 1987, Discursive Psychology (DP) has developed both methodologically, for instance by drawing closer to Conversation Analysis, and theoretically, by building a body of knowledge which outlines the discursive accomplishment of mind-world relations. One of DP’s contributions to psychology consists in the respecification of mainstream topics (like attitudes, identity, memory, and emotions). This editorial outlines the meta-the…
Somewhere to turn to: Signposting in service provision
This article investigates how members of the public are guided or ‘signposted’ out of organisations that they have contacted to third-party agencies. Using conversation analysis, we examine the interactional practices professionals use to signpost callers to external organisations when their concerns do not fit within the remit of the present service. Drawing on a corpus of over 500 calls and meetings at five different institutions in the UK (inc…
In barbarous times and in uncivilized countries”: Two centuries of the evolving uncivil in the Hansard Corpus
The ways in which politicians have discussed who, what, and where was considered “uncivilized’” across the past two centuries gives an insight into how speakers in a position of authority classified and constructed the world around them, and how those in power in Britain see the country and themselves. This article uses the Hansard Corpus 1803–2003 of speeches in the UK Parliament alongside data from the Historical Thesaurus of English to analyse…
How Mental Health Establishes ‘Vulnerability’ as the Basis for Support from a Housing Helpline: Self-Descriptions and Diagnostic Categories
In the UK, there is a greater prospect of receiving housing support if one is considered ‘vulnerable’—that is, at unusual risk. However, there can be a disparity between applicant and provider in the assessment of whether the applicant is indeed vulnerable. We investigate how one particular criterion, mental health, is constructed to reach the required threshold of “vulnerability.” On the one hand, callers brought up their mental health either (a…
The Role of Alcohol in Initial Help-Seeking Telephone Calls About Domestic Violence to the Police
This article investigates how domestic violence and abuse (DVA), its underreporting and its links with alcohol consumption, manifest in and impact the outcome of help-seeking telephone calls to U.K.-based police services. Conversation analysis of call-takers’ questions about alcohol found that they either (a) focused only on the perpetrator's drinking, and occurred after informing callers that help was being dispatched, or (b) targeted both victi…
Psychology (7 works) · Conversation (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)