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Conversation and Cognition

Conversation and Cognition

Conversation and Cognition

Hedwig te Molder, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Jonathan Potter, Loughborough University
May 2005
Paperback
9780521793698

    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 new discourse approaches to the topic of cognition. It provides a survey of cutting-edge debates about discourse and cognition as well as a range of illustrative analyses which show how the notion of cognition can be reworked. This comprehensive and accessible book will make an important contribution to the development of a more integrated approach to 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

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    Reviews & endorsements

    "This book has the potential to do in psychology what the classic edited works in CA (e.g. Atkinson and Heritage, 1984; Drew and Heritage 1992) 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

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    Product details

    May 2005
    Paperback
    9780521793698
    300 pages
    228 × 151 × 20 mm
    0.483kg
    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.
      Contributors
    • Jonathan Potter, Hedwig te Molder, Robert Sanders, Jeff Coulter, Anita Pomerantz, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Douglas Maynard, Robert Hopper, Paul Drew, John Heritage, Robin Wooffitt, Michael Lynch, David Bogen, Derek Edwards