Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 300 g
Constructing Life through Language
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 300 g
Reihe: Inquiries in Social Construction series
ISBN: 978-0-8039-8933-7
Verlag: Sage Publications UK
This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological `realities' are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both socially constructed and sustained within the context of people's disorderly, everyday conversational activities. John Shotter's interdisciplinary analysis highlights the socially contested but imaginary nature of many of the `things' we talk about in social life and illuminates the processes of their construction. He offers a broad-ranging exploration of the rhetorical, argumentative nature of conversational communication, using examples from psychotherapy, management and everyday life.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Verbale & Nonverbale Kommunikationsprozesse
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Introduction
A Rhetorical-Responsive Version of Social Constructionism
PART ONE: A RHETORICAL-RESPONSIVE VERSION OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
The Conversational Background of Social Life
Beyond Representation
Situating Social Constructionism
Knowing `From Within'
Dialogue and Rhetoric in the Construction of Social Relations
PART TWO: REALISM, THE IMAGINARY AND A WORLD OF EVENTS
The Limits of Realism
Social Life and the Imaginary
Linguistic Relativity in a World of Events
PART THREE: CONVERSATIONAL REALITIES
In Search of a Past
Therapeutic Re-Authoring
Real and Counterfeit Constructions in Interpersonal Relations
The Manager as a Practical Author
Conversations for Action
Rhetoric and the Recovery of Civil Society
Epilogue
Rhetorical-Responsive Social Constructionism in Summary Form
Afterword - Roy Bhaskar
