Discourse and Cognition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803976962)

Drawing upon ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, linguistic philosophy and social studies of science, Derek Edwards makes a compelling case for language to be best understood as a kind of activity, as discourse. These influences underpin a fascinating intellectual survey ranging across cognitivism, discursive psychology, shared knowledge, categories and metaphor, emotion and narrative. The emphasis throughout is on the value of close empirical study of text and talk, through which the topics of mind, world and who we are' are seen as ways of talking'.

Author: Derek Edwards
ISBN-10: 0803976968
ISBN-13: 9780803976962
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1996
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d