Conversation and Cognition
Conversation and Cognition
Written by some of the leading figures in the fields of conversation analysis, discursive psychology and ethnomethodology, this book looks at the challenging implications of discourse-based approaches to the topic of cognition. This volume shows how cognition can be reworked using analyses of engaging examples of real life interaction such as conversations between friends, relationship counselling sessions and legal hearings. It includes an extended introduction that overviews the history and context of cognitive research and its basic assumptions to provide a frame for understanding the specific examples discussed, as well as surveying cutting edge debates about discourse and cognition. This comprehensive and accessible book opens up important ways of understanding the relation between language and cognition.
- Provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to recent developments in conversation analysis and discursive psychology
- Illustrated throughout with engaging examples of real life interaction eg. relationship counselling talk, Oliver North's testimony
- Contributions from an international cast of highly respected conversation analysts and discursive psychologists
Awards
Winner of the 2007 Distinguished Book Award from the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association
Reviews & endorsements
'This book has the potential to do in psychology what the classic edited works in CA … have done in sociology. However, it has also initiated a serious cross-fertilization of ideas between interaction researchers in the disciplines of (primarily sociology and psychology, and will bring concerns and ideas developed in DP to new audiences.' Discourse Studies
'Conversation and Cognition is a remarkable volume … The burgeoning field of discursive psychology may still have one or two philosophical kinks to iron out of its program, though it largely deserves the credit for bringing these issues into sharp relief. In my opinion on this particular showing, ethnomethology stands apart in its clarity on the relations between cognition and conversation.' Human Studies
Product details
April 2005Hardback
9780521790208
300 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.57kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Talking cognition: mapping and making the terrain Jonathan Potter and Hedwig te Molder
- Part I. The Interface between Cognition and Action:
- 2. Validating 'observations' in discourse studies: a methodological reason for attention to cognition Robert Sanders
- 3. Language without mind Jeff Coulter
- 4. Using participants' video stimulated comments to complement analyses of interactional practices Anita Pomerantz
- 5. From paradigm to prototype and back again: interactive aspects of 'cognitive processing' in stardardized survey interviews Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas Maynard
- 6. A cognitive agnostic in conversation analysis: when do strategies affect spoken interaction? Robert Hopper
- Part II. Cognition in Action:
- 7. Is confusion a state of mind? Paul Drew
- 8. Cognition in discourse John Heritage
- 9. From process to practice: language, interaction and 'flashbulb' memories Robin Wooffitt
- 10. 'My memory has been shredded': a non-cognitivist of 'mental' phenomena Michael Lynch and David Bogen
- 11. Discursive psychology, mental states and descriptions Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter.
