Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through LanguageSAGE, 1993 - 201 lappuses 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 |
Saturs
Knowing from Within | 33 |
Dialogue and Rhetoric in the Construction of Social | 50 |
REALISM THE IMAGINARY AND A WORLD | 65 |
Social Life and the Imaginary | 79 |
Linguistic Relativity in a World of Events | 99 |
CONVERSATIONAL REALITIES | 118 |
Real and Counterfeit Constructions in Interpersonal | 132 |
Conversations | 148 |
Rhetoric and the Recovery of Civil Society | 160 |
RhetoricalResponsive Social Constructionism | 178 |
Afterword | 185 |
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actually already argue aspects attempt background basic Bhaskar Billig called chapter circumstances claims cognitivism communication concept context conversational dialogue Dinka discourse discussion Don Bannister entities epistemology essentially contested concepts Estragon everyday existence fact feel forms of talk formulated function Garfinkel give Godot hermeneutical Hopi human ideological imaginary important individuals interaction intralinguistic involved John Shotter joint action kind knowledge language language-games linguistic lives means mental metaphor mind narrative nature objects one's ontology orderly ourselves people's philosophical possible practical problem produced psychoanalysis psychology psychotherapy realism reality relation representations responsive rhetorical rhetorical-responsive scientific sense sensus communis Shotter situation social activity social construction social constructionism social constructionist society speaker speaking speech structure systematic theoretical theory things thought tradition of argumentation understanding utterances Vico Vygotsky waiting for Godot whole Whorf Wittgenstein words