Conversation and Cognition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521793696 ISBN 13: 9780521793698

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Hedwig te Molder is a senior lecturer in Communication Science in the Social Science Department at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has published on a number of topics including government communicators' talk, helpline interaction and computer-mediated communication.

Jonathan Potter is Professor of Discourse Analysis in the Social Sciences Department at Loughborough University. He has published ten books, including Discourse and Social Psychology (with Margaret Wetherell, 1987), more than forty book chapters and sixty journal articles.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521793696
• ISBN 13: 9780521793698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Molder Hedwig Te, Potter Jonathan