Making psychology relevant
By Jonathan Potter. 2005
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This article describes some key features of a discursive psychological approach. In particular, discursive psychology is analytically focused on the way psychological phenomena are practical, accountable, situated, embodied and displayed. It describes its particular version of constructionism and its distinctive approach to cognition as points of contrast with a range of other perspectives, including critical discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. Finally, it describes three areas where discursive psychology is involved with social critique: work on categories and prejudice, issues to do with cognitivism and its problems, and work developing a discursive psychology of institutions.
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
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Citations in the corpus
- The Nature of Scientific Conceptions: A Discursive Psychological Perspective. (2008, methodology): “By “[m]aking psychology relevant” (Potter, 2005), discursive psychology theorizes language-in-interaction as phenomenon, which, to me, has a greater potential to lead to knowledge useful to language users themselves.”