Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts - Softcover

Antaki, Charles

 
9780803986060: Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts

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Explanations identify causes, back up claims and justify actions. Social scientists study them because they reveal how people understand and construct their worlds. This stimulating book offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing.

Using concrete examples to illuminate the range of contemporary approaches, Antaki's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a picture of explanation as a richly social achievement of speaker and audience, involving a balance between delicate manoeuvre and the exercise of discursive power.

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Charles Antaki is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is editor of Analyzing Everyday Explanation (SAGE, 1988).

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ISBN 10:  080398605X ISBN 13:  9780803986053
Verlag: Sage Publications UK, 1994
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