Lecture 7 Flashcards

1
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IPA is more critical of the idea of language as representing….

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Reflecting reality.

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2
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Language as a construction yard was developed as language began to be understood as

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Social performance

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3
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In language as a construction yard language is seen as:

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Productive

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4
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What does productive language mean?

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That is constructs versions of social reality and

Achieves social objectives

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5
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Language as a construction yard means that language is used to

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Construct versions of things, ppl, ideas and events

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6
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Language as a construction yard model - words are never simply

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Neutral reflections of reality

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7
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Psychology didn’t start turning to language until

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1970s

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8
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Cognitivism - focus of inquiry is the study of:

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Mental representations

The rules that control cognitive mediation

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9
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Psychologys turn to language was informed by 2 things:

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Post structuralism (lang as construction yard)
Critique of cognitivism (Lang as a mirror)
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10
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Structuralism is based on the assumption that all phenomena have an

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Underlying objective structure that can be discovered if the ‘right’ methods are used. Ie universal laws & structures

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11
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Understanding the world is a product of

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Understanding language

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12
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Our perspectives are by-products of a

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Social interchange

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13
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An individuals point of view depends upon

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Where he/she stands in relation to others

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14
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Our perspectives are built into systems of

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Communication and relationships

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15
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A reflexive statement is acknowledging

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Where you stand in relation to your research question, the method used, how you’ve chosen to analyse data and your relationship with your participant has affected your project

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16
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Post structuralist…words don’t convey

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True representations of mental states

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17
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In post structuralism words have

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Purpose

As participant have a stake

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18
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In post structuralism you have to take into account the ………………within which the people speak.

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Social context

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19
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What are the first 2 primary assumptions of post structuralism?

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  1. A critical stance toward the taken for granted - critical psych
  2. Historical and cultural specificity (not universal laws etc)
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20
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The second two assumptions of post structuralism:

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  1. Knowledge sustained through social processes (social constructionism)
  2. Knowledge and social action go together
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21
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Two main version of discourse analysis:

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DA

FDA

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22
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DA just relates to

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Speech

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23
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the shared understandings of particular phenomena are what make up the idea of discourse in

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FDA

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24
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DA is concerned with how ppl use

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Discursive resources or strategies in order to achieve interpersonal objectives in social interaction

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25
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Discursive resources
Discursive strategies
rhetorical devices all mean the

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Same thing

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26
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The epistemological framework of DA emphasises the

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Performative aspects of discourse

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27
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In discursive psych. Discourse =

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Talk

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28
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In DA they use talk/text that is

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Naturally occurring

29
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Methods used to collect DA data

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Semi or unstructured interviews

Focus groups

30
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DA is concerned with psychological phenomena such as

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Memory identity and emotion

31
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In DA psychological phenomena are conceptualised as

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Discursive actions (something we construct in speech) rather than cog processes

32
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DA is interested in 2 things:

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References to phenomena (eg how ppl talk about identity)

Functions & consequences of references to phenomena (what happens when we talk about identity in certain ways)

33
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DA analysis focuses on looking at ways that participants use

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Discursive strategies to manage their interests

34
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Discursive strategies are used for 3 primary reasons:

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Build speakers credibility
Build a case
Elicit audience emotion

35
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4 way ppl build credibility

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Category entitlement
Concession
Consensus
Disclaimer

36
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Last 2 ways of building credibility

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Footing

Stake management

37
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To build a case we use some of the following

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Active voice
Categorisation
Making evidence ‘speak for itself’

38
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What will ppl do to elicit emotion?

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Repetition
Rhetorical q’s
Three-part list

39
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Realism as interpretive repertoire is when the participant draws on

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Drawing on realism to guide what ppl shroud actually be doing

40
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Use of interpretive repertoires can lead to negotiation of power is the province of which method?

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FDA

41
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What does FDA look at?

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How lang is used to create subjectivities and power

42
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In FDA you are more interested in looking at what kinds of …….are constructed through discourses

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Objects and subjects

43
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In FDA a discourse could be defined as

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A local collection of knowledge (shared taken for granted assumptions about a phenomena)

44
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FDA is concerned with discourses and further the way on which these discourses construct…

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Subjectivity, self hood and power relations in broader society

45
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A FDA research q describes and critiques the

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Discursive worlds people inhabit

46
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FDA research q’s also explore the implications of

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The discursive worlds for subjectivity and experience

47
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What is central to FDA?

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Q’s of power

48
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4 key FDA q’s

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What is knowledge
How did it arise
Whose interests are served by this knowledge?
Whose interests does the knowledge oppress?

49
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In FDA ‘speaking’ brings into being and positions the speaker as ……. And who or what is spoken about as ……..

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Subject

Object

50
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Subjection positioning FDA replaces the

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Idea of a coherent subject who exists before and across discourses

51
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Also central to FDA is

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Positioning

52
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Discourses evoke particular

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Expectations around behaviour and consequently influence behaviour

53
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An example of dominant discourse

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Neoliberal discourse (capitalism)

54
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Power, right, knowledge

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Rules set by high up ppl
Knowledge of this transmitted
Known as ‘truth’
‘Truth’ in turn reproduces power

55
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Discourses are NOT

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Stable and predetermined.

56
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Discourses Do

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Exist in action, conversation and therefore evolve, fragment, disappear are contested

57
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What text can be used for FDA

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Pretty much anything! Esp magazines

58
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Analytic strategies of FDA. How’s my steps did Parker introduce?

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20

59
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In a Simplified FDA analysis what is steps 1-2?

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Select text

60
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Carla willing has a ….stage FDA analysis process

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7

61
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Carla willing step 1.

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Identify object and subject

62
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Carla willig step 2.

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Identify all the ways the object is constructed in the txt

63
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Carla willig step 3.

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Look at how the different object constructions are different.

64
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Carla willig step 4.

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Action orientation. Look at context within which the different constructions of the object are being deployed.

65
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Carla willig step 5.

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Examine subject positions that discourses around the object offer

66
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Subject positions are NOT

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Roles (not a particular part to be acted out)

67
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Carla willig step 6.

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Practice. Relationship btwn discourse and practice? Do discursive constructions open or close down action?

68
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Carla willig step 7.

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Subjectivity. What are the consequences of taking up various subject positions for the individuals subjective experience?

69
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Language as a mirror means that

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Language simply reflects reality