What is “Discursive Psychology”?

By J. Coulter. 2004

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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‘Older people’ talking as if they are not older people: Positioning theory as an explanation (2006, background): “‘Older people’ talking as if they are not older people: Positioning Theory as an explanation”
"I'm a Bit Concerned"--Early Actions and Psychological Constructions in a Child Protection Helpline (2003, background): “15 This is comparable to a relationship counselor’s constructing conflicts and disputes as problems that may have an appropriate counseling solution (Edwards & Potter, 2001).”
Extraction and aggregation in the repair of individual and collective self-reference (2007, background): “(1988) ‘Putting Linguistics on a Proper Footing: Explorations in Goffman’s Concepts of Participation’, in P. Drew and A.J. Wootton (eds) Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order, pp. 161–227. Cambridge: Polity Press. Maynard, D. (1984) Inside Plea Bargaining: The Language of Negotiation.”
Trying similarity, doing difference: the role of interviewer self-disclosure in interview talk with young people (2006, neutral): “Analysis was informed by Membership Categorization Analysis (Lepper, 2000; Sacks, 1992; Silverman, 1998), Discursive Psychology (Edwards and Potter, 1992) and Conversation Analysis (Sacks, 1992; Schegloff, 1991).”
The Qualitative Research Interview: Participants' Responsive Participation in Knowledge Making (2006, methodology): “My analysis encouraged me to study face-to-face interactions from ethnomethodologically informed discursive perspectives (Edwards & Potter, 1992).”
Living Leadership: A Systemic Constructionist Approach (2008, methodology): “Other possible models drawn from discursive psychology (Edwards, 2005; Potter & Wetherell, 1987), narrative (Cooren & Fairhurst, 2002; Taylor & Van Every, 2000), and conversational analysis (Boden, 1994) also may be employed to inquire into the construction of leadership positioning.”
When the Rules of Discourse Change, but Nobody Tells You: Making Sense of Mathematics Learning From a Commognitive Standpoint (2007, background): “Discursive psychology is probably the best known of those more radical approaches (see, e.g., Edwards, 1997; Edwards & Potter, 1992; Harré & Gillett, 1995).”
“If a girl doesn't say ‘no’…”: young men, rape and claims of ‘insufficient knowledge’ (2008, background): “In contrast to the dominant ‘cognitive’ paradigm in psychology, discourse is assumed to be situated, action-oriented, constructed and constructive (Edwards & Potter, 2001).”
Identity As Narrative: Prevalence, Effectiveness, and Consequences of Narrative Identity Work in Macro Work Role Transitions (2010, background): “This no tion of self-narrative repertoire is related to the idea of interpretive repertoire in discursive psy chology?a register of terms and metaphors from which people draw selectively to charac terize and evaluate actions and events (Edwards & Potter, 1992; Potter & Reicher, 1987).”
Cognition and conversation (2006, background): “For example, this might consider how motives are established or memories are discounted as flawed (e.g. Edwards & Potter, 1992); 2.”
Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action (2010, neutral): “At the same time we will be guided by discursive psychological principles in considering the role of cognition or psychological states in unfolding action (Edwards, 1997; Edwards and Potter, 2001).”
Making links in psychoanalytic interpretations: A conversation analytical perspective (2004, methodology): “In current psychological research, the method that comes closest to CA is discursive psychology (Edwards, 1997; Edwards & Potter, 1992), which has indeed adopted the analytical techniques and the basic concepts of CA.”
Moral logic and logical morality: Attributions of responsibility and blame in online discourse on veganism (2005, background): “Discursive psychology (DP) is concerned with the rhetorical and interactional features of discourse (Edwards, 1997; Edwards and Potter, 1992; Potter, 1996).”
Making psychology relevant (2005, background): “Often these two levels of accountability are closely bound together such that speakers can construct their own accountability via the construction of others’ and vice versa (Edwards & Potter, 1992).”
Constructing a Non-depressed Self: Women’s Accounts of Recovery from Depression (2006, methodology): “The second approach draws on the work of Foucault and involves a somewhat broader analysis of how discourses constitute particular phenomena and with what political, social, and personal consequences (Parker, 1992, 1997; Willig, 1999).”