Jonathan Paul Potter

Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation

Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation

Conversation and Cognition

Conversation and Cognition

Country Life Book of Antique Maps: An Introduction to the History of Maps and How to Appreciate Them

Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behavior

Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour

Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

House of Words

"Build me a house of words,/ A house of how and why,/ and I will live in it with you/ Under the silent sky,/ For we will tell each other/ Things we would deny/ And believe them by and by." Jonathan Potter's House of Words is a collection of poems arranged in four movements echoing the structure of a...

Ships (Look Inside Cross-Sections)

Which famous ship, sunk for more than 400 years, was raised in 1982? Why was the Pilgrim ship Mayflower so crowded? What would you find inside a World War II aircraft carrier?

Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction 1st edition by Potter, Jonathan (1996) Paperback

Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

`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 How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of ...

Discursive Psychology (Inquiries in Social Construction series)

This accessible text introduces the key elements of a discursive approach to psychology. This focuses on how discourse - naturally occurring talk and text - can be studied and understood as the accomplishment of social action. Building on discourse analysis, the authors present an integrated discurs...

Conversation and Cognition

Written by some of the leading figures in the fields of conversation analysis, discursive psychology and ethnomethodology, this book looks at the challenging implications of new discourse approaches to the topic of cognition. It provides a survey of cutting-edge debates about discourse and cognition...

Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation

The topics of 'race' and 'racism' are often treated narrowly and unimaginatively in social scientific literature; they are usually viewed as sub-categories of 'stereotyping' or 'prejudice' or 'social class.' In this exciting new book, Margaret Wetherell and Jonathan Potter extend their work on the u...

Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour

`Potter and Wetherell have genuinely presented us with a different way of working in social psychology. The book's clarity means that it has the power to influence a lot of people ill-at-ease with traditional social psychology but unimpressed with (or simply bewildered by) other alternatives on offe...