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Representing Reality

Representing Reality

Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

by Jonathan Potter
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/08/1996

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`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society



How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions.





Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with varied and engaging examples taken from newspaper stories, relationship counselling sessions, accounts of the paranormal, social workers' assessments of violent parents, informal talk between programme makers, political arguments and everyday conversations. Ranging across the social and human sciences, this book provides a lucid introduction to several key strands of work that have overturned the way we think about facts and descriptions, including: the sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, post-structuralism and postmodernism.
ISBN:
9780803984110
9780803984110
Category:
Psycholinguistics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-08-1996
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
264
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x17mm
Weight:
0.41kg

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