Explaining and Arguing

The Social Organization of Accounts
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8606-0
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

Explanations identify causes, back up claims and justify actions. Social scientists study them because they reveal how people understand and construct their worlds. This stimulating book offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing.

Using concrete examples to illuminate the range of contemporary approaches, Antaki's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a picture of explanation as a richly social achievement of speaker and audience, involving a balance between delicate manoeuvre and the exercise of discursive power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Antaki, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Attributing Cause
Causal Talk
Explanations in Exoneration
Explanation Slots
Storied Accounts
Explanatory Discourse
Making Claims in Logic and Rhetoric
Backing Claims in Quarrels
Conclusion
Explaining and Arguing in Participants' Own Words

Über Autor(innen)

Antaki, Charles
Charles Antaki is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is editor of Analyzing Everyday Explanation (SAGE, 1988).