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A Model of Discourse in Action

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ID4844448
AuthorsJonathan Potter (0009-0004-5904-1613, Loughborough University), Derek Edwards (0009-0004-1091-3011, Loughborough University), Margaret Wetherell (The Open University)
Year1993
Volume36
Issue3
Pages383-401
Publication date1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764293036003008
OpenAlexW2044734144
LanguageEN
Citations received52
References cited43

In the last fifteen years or so a number of varied strands of research have been dubbed 'discourse analysis': speech act orientated studies of conversational coherence (e.g. Coulthard and Montgomery, 1981); so called 'discourse processes' work on story grammars and the like (e.g. van Dijk and Kintch, 1983); the 'Continental' discourse analysis of Foucault (e.g. 1971), which has been concerned to show the way different cultural entities are constituted discursively as well as the historical development of that constitution; and finally specific developments within the sociology of science which arose in part as a consequence of methodological debates on the role of discourse in research methods (e.g. Gilbert and Mulkay, 1984). The approach we have developed (Edwards and Potter, 1992; Potter and Wetherell, 1987; Wetherell and Potter, 1988) draws on important features of both the Continental and the sociology of science work; although it is also strongly influenced by developments in conversation analysis (e.g. Atkinson and Heritage, 1984) and rhetoric (e.g. Billig, 1987). It also emphasises the centrality of constructionist processes (Gergen, 1985); and this is a facet of discourse analysis we will develop further in the current article

Centrality · Constitution · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy

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Unique citing works52
Citations per year1,63
Citation span1994 - 2026 (33)
Citation velocitycurrent
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