Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social ConstructionSAGE, 1996年8月13日 - 264 頁 `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 varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers′ assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations. Ranging across the social and human sciences, this book provides a lucid introduction to several key strands of work that have overturned the way we think about facts and descriptions, including: the sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernism. |
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Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction Jonathan Potter. Acknowledgements This is the first description in a book about the business done with descriptions . The book is asking how people construct their world in their talk and texts ...
... description striving to make characters believable and plots coherent . This book is concerned with two closely related sets of questions . First , how are descriptions produced so they will be treated as factual ? That is , how are ...
... descriptions would wish to discuss . Further , they should provide some considerations which anyone analysing descriptions and accounts of any kind are likely to find helpful . The third objective is more diffuse , but perhaps more ...
... descriptions out of the blue ; they produce them for what they can do in some stream of activity . Sir Robert's ... description can relate to both what is described and what is left out . The point of the being ' economical with the ...
... descriptions . Descriptions are not determined by events but are worked up , and this working up can itself be skilful . Thus the achievement of making the failed thermostat adjustment is turned into an interesting and involving story ...
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3 Semiology PostStructuralism Postmodernism | 68 |
4 Discourse and Construction | 97 |
5 Interests and Category Entitlements | 122 |
6 Constructing OutThereNess | 150 |
7 Working Up Representations | 176 |
8 Criticizing Facts | 202 |
Appendix | 233 |
References | 235 |
Index | 248 |