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Discursive social psychology: from attitudes to evaluative practices

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posted on 2012-03-26, 09:11 authored by Jonathan Potter
This chapter reviews the major theoretical and methodological features of discursive social psychology and illustrates the scope and nature of this approach through showing the way it can respecify the social psychology of attitudes. It reviews discourse research on attitude variability; it describes conversation analytic studies on the way evaluations are managed in interaction and shows how our understanding of political oratory can be improved; it discusses the way evaluations are bound up with broader, culturally-defined systems of discourse; it discusses the relation between assessments and factual accounts; and finally it shows how a discursive approach can rework notions of function, consistency, vested interest and emotion.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Citation

POTTER, J., 1998. Discursive social psychology: from attitudes to evaluative practices. European Review of Social Psychology, 9(1), pp. 233 - 266

Publisher

© Taylor and Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

1998

Notes

This is an electronic version of an article published in POTTER, J. Discursive social psychology: from attitudes to evaluative practices. European Review of Social Psychology, 9(1), pp. 233 - 266. European Review of Social Psychology is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?journalCode=pers20

ISSN

1046-3283;1479-277X

Language

  • en