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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... narrative Truth is stranger than fiction 7 Working up Representations Categorization and ontological gerrymandering Extrematization and minimization Normalization and abnormalization Representations in action 8 Criticizing Facts Facts ...
... narrative . This is a theme that will be explored in Chapter 6 . A further consideration is that Freddy is working up an invented story . It is tempting to consider this to be totally different from someone recounting an actual story ...
... narratives – anecdotes to make points , for entertainment and laughter . In the continuation of the article the writer ... narrative is being set to work in the current text that I am writing . — - Another issue highlighted here is the ...
... narrative of an event or thing ; a relation , report , or description ' ( OED ) . Note the way the definition of description uses the term describes as well as the term account , the definition of report uses account , and the ...
... narrative involving either rich detail or general formulations ( rich detail can be used to sustain the category entitlement ' witness ' , general formulations can be used to resist easy rebuttal ) . In each case the emphasis will be on ...
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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 |