Conversational Realities: Constructing Life Through Language

by John Shotter

Book Overview

This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological realities′ are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both socially constructed and sustained within the context of people′s disorderly, everyday conversational activities.

John Shotter′s interdisciplinary analysis highlights the socially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803989334
• ISBN13: 9780803989337
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.4"