PSYCO415 Lecture 4: Discursive Psychology
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What gives things mutually understood understanding regarding the meeting. Ethnomethodology is concerned with how people of themselves make sense of themselves. Language in both linguistic senses but also in terms of speech and how people choose to express themselves linguistically. The use of language via writing or verbally. Psycholingisitics - looking at what methods underly the process of producing language. If they tell the truth or saying what is socially acceptable. Discursive psychology blends aspects of ethnomethodology and social. Not using the minds, rather using interactions between people. Can"t study individuals, can only look between people to nd sense. As a consequence, some of the main features are: All we have is action - no internal mental states. Rather than viewing language as a way to represent external states of a air or internal states of mind, dp considers talk" as a way to accomplish social tasks. What are social tasks? blaming, disclaiming, requesting, ordering, apologizing, justifying, acquiring empathy.