Conversational Realities: Constructing Life through Language by John Shotter (En

Description: Conversational Realities by John Shotter Challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological "realities" of a systematic kind are to be discovered underlying appearances. This text claims that such orderly "realities" are both socially constructed and sustained within everyday conversation. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 peoples disorderly, everyday conversational activities.John Shotters 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 life. Table of Contents IntroductionA Rhetorical-Responsive Version of Social ConstructionismPART ONE: A RHETORICAL-RESPONSIVE VERSION OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISMThe Conversational Background of Social LifeBeyond RepresentationSituating Social ConstructionismKnowing `From Within′Dialogue and Rhetoric in the Construction of Social RelationsPART TWO: REALISM, THE IMAGINARY AND A WORLD OF EVENTSThe Limits of RealismSocial Life and the ImaginaryLinguistic Relativity in a World of EventsPART THREE: CONVERSATIONAL REALITIESIn Search of a PastTherapeutic Re-AuthoringReal and Counterfeit Constructions in Interpersonal RelationsThe Manager as a Practical AuthorConversations for ActionRhetoric and the Recovery of Civil SocietyEpilogueRhetorical-Responsive Social Constructionism in Summary FormAfterword - Roy Bhaskar Review `I like this book, will recommend it to colleagues and students, and expect it to become a staple citation in articles and books I publish... Sometimes books an academic reads enable a person to make connections among previously disconnected pieces of experience, recurring preferences and passions, and particular life decisions. Reading Conversational Realities accomplished this for me... it is theoretically rich, philosophically thoughtful and experientially evocative′ - Human Studies`[An] immensely thoughtful, informative and persuasive treatment of the "rhetorical-responsive version of social constructionism" via an eclectic blend of, principally, European and American linguistics, philosophy and social psychology... Shotter′s book is most important for continuing the work begun by Billig and others bringing recognition via recollection to the rhetorical corpus. He claims to target his recovery of these materials toward psychologists; readers in related disciplines will certainly also benefit′ - Discourse & Society`This book is fascinating... It is important for several reasons. First, it provides an overview of an approach to the social sciences known as social constructionism... Second, Shotter maintains that the fundamental human reality is persons in conversations... Third, Shotter is concerned with practical implications, not just theoretical conceptions′ - Studies in Second Language Acquisition Review Quote I like this book, will recommend it to colleagues and students, and expect it to become a staple citation in articles and books I publish... Sometimes books an academic reads enable a person to make connections among previously disconnected pieces of experience, recurring preferences and passions, and particular life decisions. Reading Conversational Realities accomplished this for me... it is theoretically rich, philosophically thoughtful and experientially evocative - Human Studies[An] immensely thoughtful, informative and persuasive treatment of the "rhetorical-responsive version of social constructionism" via an eclectic blend of, principally, European and American linguistics, philosophy and social psychology... Shotters book is most important for continuing the work begun by Billig and others bringing recognition via recollection to the rhetorical corpus. He claims to target his recovery of these materials toward psychologists; readers in related disciplines will certainly also benefit - Discourse & SocietyThis book is fascinating... It is important for several reasons. First, it provides an overview of an approach to the social sciences known as social constructionism... Second, Shotter maintains that the fundamental human reality is persons in conversations... Third, Shotter is concerned with practical implications, not just theoretical conceptions - Studies in Second Language Acquisition Details ISBN0803989334 Author John Shotter Short Title CONVERSATIONAL REALITIES Pages 208 Language English ISBN-10 0803989334 ISBN-13 9780803989337 Media Book Format Paperback Series Inquiries in Social Construction Series Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Illustrations black & white illustrations Series Number 11 Affiliation University of New Hampshire, USA Subtitle Constructing Life through Language DOI 10.1604/9780803989337 UK Release Date 1993-12-09 NZ Release Date 1993-12-09 Year 1993 Publication Date 1993-12-09 DEWEY 410 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2004-07-13 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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