1st Edition

Discourse Dynamics Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology

By Ian Parker Copyright 1992
35 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

188 Pages
by Routledge

What are discourses? Are discourses ‘real’, and what is real outside language? Originally published in 1992, Ian Parker provides one of the clearest and most systematic introductions to discourse research and the essential theoretical debates in the area. At the time it was one of the few texts to defend a realist position, discuss accounts of postmodernity and set out criteria for the... Read more

Acknowledgements  Introduction  Part 1: Discourses  1 Discovering Discourses, Tackling Texts  2 Realism, Inside and Outside Texts  Part 2: Cultures  3 Novel Narratives of Modern Times  4 Discourse Discourse, Postmodern Psychology  Part 3: Individuals  5 Power: an Ecological Model of Text-Life  6 Desire: Psychodynamic Models. Research and Reading  References  Name Index  Subject Index

Biography

Ian Parker