Sally Wiggins combines her expertise in discursive psychology with her clear and demystifying pedagogical approach to produce a book that is committed to student success.
This guide explains how to conduct a discursive psychology research project. Such research explores how our use of language results in specific beliefs, versions of reality, and social actions.
This book is a timely contribution to the advance of discursive psychology by fostering critical perspectives upon its intellectual and empirical agenda.
Critical Discursive Psychology addresses issues in critical discursive research in psychology, and outlines the historical context in the discipline for the emergence of qualitative debates.
Among the topics covered: Discursive approaches to violence against women. The American gun control debate: a discursive analysis. Constructing peace and violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
For psychologists whose work involves an understanding of the relations between language and cognition this book will be essential reading.... This is a demanding book that will repay close attention.