Including social discourses and experience in research on refugees, race, and ethnicity

Bibliographic Data

ID12252841
AuthorsJames Cresswell (0000-0002-3757-808X, Booth University College, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume23
Issue5
Pages553-575
Publication date2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-9265 • E-ISSN: 1460-3624
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957926512455885
OpenAlexW2329687704
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited38

In Discourse & Society, there has been discussion of accounting practices involving refugees, racism, and ethnicity. Some of these articles note that discursive psychology’s emphasis on in-situ constructions leads to a situation where it does not allow us to fully grasp social discourses. This article addresses this critique by discussing conversation analysis and ethnomethodology. It then adds to this discussion by proposing that linguistically constituted phenomenological experience – a topic important in reference to refugees, racism, and ethnicity – is also bypassed by discourse analysis. It draws upon Mikhail Bakhtin’s early work and on how experience is bound to social discourse. By proposing how Bakhtin meshes with Garfinkel and conversation analysis, it is possible to approach experience using techniques put forward by these perspectives. The result is a proposed way to research social discourse and experience, thereby enhancing discursive analysis

Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Ethnomethodology · Linguistics · Political science · Racism · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy