PART ONE: Theory
Chapter 1: Discursive Psychology
Chapter 2: DP and other forms of Discourse Analysis
PART TWO: Methods
Chapter 3: Developing a research question
Chapter 4: Data collection and management
Chapter 5: Transcribing and coding data
Chapter 6: Analysing data using DP
Chapter 7: Discursive devices
Chapter 8: Writing up and presenting DP analyses
PART THREE: Applications
Chapter 9: DP topics, case-studies and project ideas
Chapter 10: Applications and future developments
Sally Wiggins is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Department
of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Sweden.
She has written a methods textbook (Discursive Psychology; Sage
Publications, 2017), and various book chapters detailing the theory
and methods that underpin discursive psychology. She has also
coedited two books (Critical Bodies and Discursive Research in
Practice). Her research has focused primarily on the social
interactional practices around eating, particularly during family
mealtimes. This work has begun to examine the ways in which
appetite, food preferences, and gustatory pleasure/disgust are
enacted and consequential for children and parents in everyday
mealtime situations. Her research topics of interests also include
student interaction within problem-based learning tutorial groups,
examining learning practices in situ and the construction of
knowledge and identity in talk.
This is a timely and exciting contribution to Discourse Analysis
work in Psychology. Authoratitive, accessible and working with new
developments in discursive psychological research, it is a useful
read for new and established scholars alike.
*Sarah Riley*
Wiggins has produced a text which is at the same time authoritative
and readable; combining smart scholarship with engaging writing.
It offers a comprehensive account of the development, current
status and future of discursive psychology which is up to date and
a must read for anyone wanting to know about this important
disciplinary area. Wiggins’ depth of understanding shines
through as she elegantly captures the complexities of the field.
*Jonathan Potter*
Discursive psychologists take a strong line on psychological
issues, insisting that attitudes, emotions, identities and the like
be analysed as public, inspectable features of social interaction.
Wiggins’ book is an inviting, and utterly comprehensive, guide to
discursive psychology. A delightful read for students and academics
seeking to find what lies beyond cognitivism.
*Jakob Cromdal*
This book is a real ‘game-changer’, and one that those of us who
teach discursive psychology have needed for years. Students
now have an accessible and comprehensive guide to this
intellectually vibrant approach, which includes lots of clear
examples, useful practical advice and ideas for students doing
their own projects. Wiggins succeeds in her aim of
demystifying discursive psychology and challenging those who would
argue that it is too complicated for undergraduate students.
This is a fine book that deserves to be used widely in
undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in psychology and
beyond.
*Stephen Gibson*
This book provides "one-stop shopping" with respect to helping
readers develop familiarity with DP, and the types and functions of
DP devices, through actual practice.
*Clare Macmartin*
Easily the most comprehensive book, to date, that situates and
differentiates a Discursive Psychological approach with other
discourse analytic approaches, and follows up with a ′how-to′
scaffolding of analytic examples that both novices and seasoned
veterans will find eminently readable, crisp, and helpful.
*Neill Korobov*
This book has achieved something very unique. It provides a
compelling argument for the specific commitments and benefits of a
Discursive Psychology (DP) approach to analysing talk and text but
does so in a way that is not at all exclusionary or imperialist
with regards to its treatment of other forms of discourse analytic
work. Indeed, readers of this book (be they the student novice or
the more experienced analyst) will emerge with not only with a
greater appreciation of DP, but also with a clearer understanding
of the structure of the broader terrain of discourse analysis and
DP′s particular place within it. Moreover, this feat is pulled off
with an engaging style that will make this book approachable to
all. I will certainly be using this book in both my undergraduate
and postgraduate teaching.
*Tim Kurz*
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