Conversational Realities
Subtitle: Constructing Life through Language (Inquiries in Social Construction series)
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: January 21, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780803989320
Subjects: Anthropology; Discourse analysis; Language Arts & Disciplines; Conversation And Discourse; Interpersonal Communication; Psychology; Linguistics; Conversation analysis; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Interpersonal relations; Sociolinguistics
First sentence: One of the aims of formulating a rhetorical-responsive version of social constructionism corresponds with that mentioned above by Foucault: it can confront us with the 'real' socio-historical and socio-cultural conditions of our lives, those making the current nature of our consciousnesses possible - where, of course, in the view taken in this book, it is a part of what it is for these to be the 'real' conditions of our lives that all attempts to characterize them are, by their very nature, contested.