Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

Jonathan Potter

ISBN 10: 0803984111 / ISBN 13: 9780803984110

Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd 1996-08-13, 1996

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Titolo: Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric ...

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd 1996-08-13

Data di pubblicazione: 1996

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: New

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`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society

How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions.

Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with

Recensione:

`Since the publication of Potter & Wetherell's influential Discourse and Social Psychology, which laid the ground-plan for their version of discourse analysis, work has continued apace... As a progress report, the present text provides a valuable up-date, summarizing the main lines of development and usefully pulling together material heretofore only available from a disparate range of sources... As an introduction to this type of analysis, this is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society

`Potter leaves the reader wanting more-which is a pretty good place to leave a reader' - Language in Society