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This chapter comments on some of the different senses of the notion of discourse in the various relevant literatures and then overviews the basic features of a coherent discourse analytic programme in Psychology. Parker’s approach is criticized for (a) its tendency to reify discourses as objects, (b) its undeveloped notion of analytic practice and (c) its vulnerability to common sense assumptions. It ends by exploring the virtues of ‘interpretative repertoires’ over ‘discourses’ as an analytic/theoretical notion.
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© 2015 Jonathan Potter, Margaret Wetherell, Rosalind Gill and Derek Edwards
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Potter, J., Wetherell, M., Gill, R., Edwards, D. (2015). Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?. In: Critical Discursive Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137505279_14
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