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Subject:       [CIOS/ethno] Professor Derek Edwards' Inaugural Lecture - Wednesday November 25
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You are cordially invited to attend Professor Derek Edwards' (Department of=
 Social Sciences) Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday November 25 at 5.00pm in U=
020 (Brockington Extension). Refreshments will be provided. To find out mor=
e and to book your place please visit

 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/publicity/inaugural/inaugural_edwards.html.=


A synopsis is given below.

The uses of intentionality and other psychological concepts in conversation

Professor Edwards demonstrates how 'discursive psychology' (DP) provides a =
way of understanding the commonsense reasoning that people use in ordinary =
conversation. He introduces DP, and draws on his recent and current researc=
h into how mental and other psychological concepts are used in the service =
of the practical actions that language performs.

Illustrations are taken from a variety of audio-recorded sources including =
ordinary conversations, telephone complaint lines, counselling and police i=
nterrogations. In contrast to mainstream psychology, whose task is often ch=
aracterized as that of replacing common sense with a scientific alternative=
, DP studies how common sense actually works - in particular, concepts such=
 as thinking, knowing, intending, forgetting, believing, feeling angry, and=
 so on. The key is not to approach common sense psychology as potentially e=
rroneous descriptions of mental life, but rather to examine empirically how=
 psychological concepts are actually used, and what they are used to do.

Both empirically and theoretically, DP approaches everyday psychological co=
ncepts as parts of a culture, grounded in the practices of social interacti=
on, in activities such as accusing, complaining, complimenting or receiving=
 compliments, making or rejecting offers and invitations, and so on. As Wit=
tgenstein observed, psychological expressions do not exist by reference to =
private mental experiences, but in terms of their public uses.






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