Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals): Critical Analysis for Social and Individual PsychologyWhat are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language? In this book, originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area. At the time it was one of the few texts to defend a realist position, discuss accounts of postmodernity and set out criteria for the identification of discourses. Discourse Dynamics is essential reading to anyone interested in project research and an understanding of the theoretical issues involved in discourse analysis. The book will also be of use to students other than those studying psychology. It addresses the concerns of all those looking at qualitative textual research in the human sciences and is still very much relevant today. |
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... relations that often we can see no other ways of being, and it structures ideology so that it is difficult to speak both in and against it. Outside psychology, studies of language from a wide range of disciplines have shown how, for ...
... relation of power when we are placed in relation to the discourse itself. A (pseudo-)scientific discourse such as psychology, for example, is one in which rights and powers to speak are clearly signalled by the amount of knowledge held ...
... relations. We should talk about discourse and power in the same breath. Institutions, for example, are structured around and reproduce power relations. The giving and taking away of rights to speak in medical discourse and the ...
... relations are as ideological as those who support them, and it has similar political effects. This relativism either evacuates politics of any meaning (other than leaving things as they are) or confines politics to the sphere of ...
... relation to others is challenged. It alters, and so permits different spaces for manoeuvre and resistance. A third point connected with the previous two is that both reflexivity and discourse analysis are historically and culturally ...
Contents
Realism inside and outside texts | |
Cultures | |
Discourse discourse postmodern psychology | |
Individuals | |
psychodynamic models | |
Research and reading | |
Other editions - View all
Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology Ian Parker No preview available - 1992 |
Discourse Dynamics (Psychology Revivals): Critical Analysis for Social and ... Ian Parker No preview available - 2014 |