Discursive Social Psychology: From Attitudes to Evaluative Practices
Open Access
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in European Review of Social Psychology
- Vol. 9 (1), 233-266
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14792779843000090
Abstract
This chapter reviews the major theoretical and methodological features of discursive social psychology and illustrates the scope and nature of this approach through showing the way it can respecify the social psychology of attitudes. It reviews discourse research on attitude variability; it describes conversation analytic studies on the way evaluations are managed in interaction and shows how our understanding of political oratory can be improved; it discusses the way evaluations are bound up with broader, culturally-defined systems of discourse; it discusses the relation between assessments and factual accounts; and finally it shows how a discursive approach can rework notions of function, consistency, vested interest and emotion.Keywords
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