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Cambridge Conversation and Cognition 2012 Edition by Hedwig te Molder, Jonathan Potter
Written by some of the leading figures in the fields of conversation analysis, discursive psychology and ethnomethodology, this book looks at the challenging implications of discourse-based approaches to the topic of cognition. This volume shows how cognition can be reworked using analyses of engaging examples of real life interaction such as conversations between friends, relationship counselling sessions and legal hearings. It includes an extended introduction that overviews the history and context of cognitive research and its basic assumptions to provide a frame for understanding the specific examples discussed, as well as surveying cutting edge debates about discourse and cognition. This comprehensive and accessible book opens up important ways of understanding the relation between language and cognition. Table of contents :- 1. Talking cognition: mapping and making the terrain Jonathan Potter and Hedwig te Molder; Part I. The Interface between Cognition and Action: 2. Validating 'observations' in discourse studies: a methodological reason for attention to cognition Robert Sanders; 3. Language without mind Jeff Coulter; 4. Using participants' video stimulated comments to complement analyses of interactional practices Anita Pomerantz; 5. From paradigm to prototype and back again: interactive aspects of 'cognitive processing' in stardardized survey interviews Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas Maynard; 6. A cognitive agnostic in conversation analysis: when do strategies affect spoken interaction? Robert Hopper; Part II. Cognition in Action: 7. Is confusion a state of mind? Paul Drew; 8. Cognition in discourse John Heritage; 9. From process to practice: language, interaction and 'flashbulb' memories Robin Wooffitt; 10. 'My memory has been shredded': a non-cognitivist of 'mental' phenomena Michael Lynch and David Bogen; 11. Discursive psychology, mental states and descriptions Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter.