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`Since the publication of Potter & Wetherell's influential Discourse and Social Psychology, which laid the ground-plan for their version of discourse analysis, work has continued apace... As a progress report, the present text provides a valuable up-date, summarizing the main lines of development and usefully pulling together material heretofore only available from a disparate range of sources... As an introduction to this type of analysis, this is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society
`Potter leaves the reader wanting more-which is a pretty good place to leave a reader' - Language in Society
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`Since the publication of Potter & Wetherell's influential Discourse and Social Psychology, which laid the ground-plan for their version of discourse analysis, work has continued apace... As a progress report, the present text provides a valuable up-date, summarizing the main lines of development and usefully pulling together material heretofore only available from a disparate range of sources... As an introduction to this type of analysis, this is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society
`Potter leaves the reader wanting more-which is a pretty good place to leave a reader' - Language in Society
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction is a fantastic book that is an easy read. As a degree student i found it very useful and packed with great ideas for my report. I highly recomend it.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With this book, Jonathan Potter provides an introduction to the way the concept of the fact, and facts themselves, are employed in a variety of discourses. The study is well researched and referenced, and manages to discuss complex subjects without becoming overly difficult. It also succeeds in suggesting many areas for further research.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Phenomenal Book
18 Jan 2005
Format:Hardcover
Jonathan Potter's "Representing Reality" is a masterwork on the creation of 'facts' in social life. His work draws from and integrates several areas of related literature including discursive social psychology, rhetoric, discourse analysis, sociology, and ethnomethodology. I was particularly interested in how Potter showed that different assertions of what reality 'is' are often voiced in a competitive, contested climate and how those asserted realities implicitly are created to forestall challenges from other versions of 'what the facts are'. .
I would recommend that readers interested in this area also examine (1) John Searle's (1995) book "The construction of social reality", (2)Stephen Toulmin's work on data, warrants, and claims, and (3) Bernard Guerin's paper in the _Review of General Psychology_ in 2003 ("Language Use as Social Strategy: A Review and an Analytic Framework for the Social Sciences") that features an interesting take on creating and disputing 'readings' or 'versions' of reality based on what are proposed as 'factual data'. These are, of course, recommended in addition to Berger and Luckmann's (1967) seminal book on the social construction of reality in everyday life.
Potter's book is truly a remarkable work. ANY person interested in how different versions of reality are socially constructed should get this book.
I would recommend that readers interested in this area also examine (1) John Searle's (1995) book "The construction of social reality", (2)Stephen Toulmin's work on data, warrants, and claims, and (3) Bernard Guerin's paper in the _Review of General Psychology_ in 2003 ("Language Use as Social Strategy: A Review and an Analytic Framework for the Social Sciences") that features an interesting take on creating and disputing 'readings' or 'versions' of reality based on what are proposed as 'factual data'. These are, of course, recommended in addition to Berger and Luckmann's (1967) seminal book on the social construction of reality in everyday life.
Potter's book is truly a remarkable work. ANY person interested in how different versions of reality are socially constructed should get this book.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
An insightful contribution by a leading discourse analyst
24 April 1997
Format:Paperback
This is one of my all-time favorite discourse analytic books. Jonathan Potter, a professor in the U.K., illustrates how rhetoric and discourse analysis can come together in provocative ways. The initial two or three chapters are, in my opinion, a bit tedious in their set-up of later chapters, but the analytic sections in the latter half of the book have no equal in this area. Potter's writing is fun to read, and the examples he uses are sometimes humorous. Fans of Potter's other work will not be disappointed
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