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Conversation and Cognition
Edited by Hedwig te Molder
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Jonathan Potter
Loughborough University
Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521793698 | ISBN-10: 0521793696)
Published April 2005
£23.99

Written by some of the leading figures in the fields of conversation analysis, discursive psychology and ethnomethodology, this book looks at the challenging implications of new discourse-based approaches to the topic of cognition. Up to now, cognition has primarily been studied in experimental settings. This volume shows how cognition can be reworked using analyses of engaging examples of real life interaction such as conversations between friends, relationship counselling sessions, and legal hearings. It includes an extended introduction that overviews the history and context of cognitive research and its basic assumptions to provide a frame for understanding the specific examples discussed, as well as surveying cutting edge debates about discourse and cognition. This comprehensive and accessible book opens up important new ways of understanding the relation between language and cognition.

• Provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to recent developments in conversation analysis and discursive psychology
• Illustrated throughout with engaging examples of real life interaction eg. relationship counselling talk, Oliver North’s testimony
• Contributions from an international cast of highly respected conversation analysts and discursive psychologists

Contents

1. Talking cognition: mapping and making the terrain Jonathan Potter and Hedwig te Molder; Part I. The Interface between Cognition and Action: 2. Validating ‘observations’ in discourse studies: a methodological reason for attention to cognition Robert Sanders; 3. Language without mind Jeff Coulter; 4. Using participants’ video stimulated comments to complement analyses of interactional practices Anita Pomerantz; 5. From paradigm to prototype and back again: interactive aspects of ‘cognitive processing’ in stardardized survey interviews Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas Maynard; 6. A cognitive agnostic in conversation analysis: when do strategies affect spoken interaction? Robert Hopper; Part II. Cognition in Action: 7. Is confusion a state of mind? Paul Drew; 8. Cognition in discourse John Heritage; 9. From process to practice: language, interaction and ‘flashbulb’ memories Robin Wooffitt; 10. ‘My memory has been shredded’: a non-cognitivist of ‘mental’ phenomena Michael Lynch and David Bogen; 11. Discursive psychology, mental states and descriptions Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter.

Prize Winner

Distinguished Book Award from the Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section of the American Sociological Association 2007 - Winner

Review

'This book has the potential to do in psychology what the classic edited works in CA … have done in sociology. However, it has also initiated a serious cross-fertilization of ideas between interaction researchers in the disciplines of (primarily sociology and psychology, and will bring concerns and ideas developed in DP to new audiences.' Discourse Studies

Contributors

Jonathan Potter, Hedwig te Molder, Robert Sanders, Jeff Coulter, Anita Pomerantz, Nora Cate Schaeffer, Douglas Maynard, Robert Hopper, Paul Drew, John Heritage, Robin Wooffitt, Michael Lynch, David Bogen, Derek Edwards