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This chapter comments on some of the different senses of the notion of discourse in the various relevant literatures and then overviews the basic features of a coherent discourse analytic programme in Psychology. Parker’s approach is criticized for (a) its tendency to reify discourses as objects; (b) its undeveloped notion of analytic practice; (c) its vulnerability to common sense assumptions. It ends by exploring the virtues of ‘interpretative repertoires’ over ‘discourses’ as an analytic/theoretical notion.
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Potter, J., Wetherell, M., Gill, R., Edwards, D. (2002). Discourse. In: Critical Discursive Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914651_13
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