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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780983103321

Autore

Edwards Derek

Titolo

Discourse and cognition [[electronic resource] /] / Derek Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1997

ISBN

1-85702-290-4

0-8039-7697-6

1-4462-2669-7

1-282-55917-6

9786612559174

0-85702-290-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 356 p.)

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Discursive psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-347) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; 1 - An Informal Introduction; 2 - Cognitivism and Cognition; 3 - Discourse and Reality; 4 - Talk as Action; 5 - Shared Knowledge; 6 - Scripts and Dispositions; 7 - Emotion; 8 - Categories I: Language and Perception; 9 - Categories II: Bodily Experience and Folk Psychology; 10 - Narrative: Stories and Rememberings; 11 - Membership: Children, Animals and Machines; Appendix: Transcription Symbols; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In a reappraisal of some of the deepest debates in psychology this book details how the dominant cognitive approach to the subject of language fails, and makes a compelling case for understanding it as a kind of activity, as discourse.