3. Discursive Approaches.docx

CRITICAL READING: CORNELL NOTES Discursive Approaches Name: Date: 13 August 2023 Section: Lecture 3 Period: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences Conversion Analysis A strand of sociology that has been highly influential in DP, leading to the dev...

CRITICAL READING: CORNELL NOTES Discursive Approaches Name: Date: 13 August 2023 Section: Lecture 3 Period: Questions/Main Ideas/Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences Conversion Analysis A strand of sociology that has been highly influential in DP, leading to the development of a conversation analytic school within DP, developed primarily through the work of Jonathan Potter and Derek Edwards. CA examines everyday talk in natural settings, focusing its analytical lens on the sequential turns of talk in the immediate interactional context, what is called talk-in-interaction. CA considers all words and paralinguistic features such as hesitations, breaths, ums, slips of the tongue etc., and requires a detailed level of transcription to document all these things.  Critical Discourse Analysis Draws on the philosophy of late 20th century French philosopher, Michel Foucault. Foucault challenged traditional notions of truth and knowledge and was interested in the historical emergence and development of various disciplines of knowledge, and how this knowledge exercises power. CDA situates language within a wider social context, noting that patterns of meaning (or ‘discourses’) carry particular power relationships, enabling and constraining what can be said and done, and by whom. CDA is critical in the sense that it questions these power relationships and advocates for a critical stance toward inequality and social injustice – and, interestingly, it’s critical of traditional psychology. Within DP, this approach has been developed by and is closely associated with Ian Parker and Tuen van Dijk. The Synthetic Approach Many researchers, notably Margaret Wetherell and Michael Billig have argued for an integration of CA and CDA, arguing that talk functions to achieve some specific action in the here-and-now, and that it must acknowledge and respond to the social, cultural and historical context within which talk emerges, either reproducing or challenging available discourses. Wetherell’s synthetic approach allows for the simultaneous analysis of situated discursive practices and the social context in which they arise. s