For over thirty years, discursive psychology has offered a robust challenge to cognitivist approaches to psychology, demonstrating the relevance of discursive practices for understanding psychological topics and social interaction. Matters of embodiment the visceral, sensory, physical aspects of psychology have, however, so far received much less attention.
This book is the first text to address the theoretical and analytical challenges raised by bodies in interaction for discursive psychology. The book brings together international experts, each of which tackles a different topic area and interactional setting to examine embodiment as a social object. The authors consider the issue of subject-object relations and how inner psychological subject-side states are constructed and enacted in relation to object-side states through embodied discursive practices. How do bodily processes become particular kinds of embodiment through and within social interaction? How are bodies psychologised as social objects
Moving beyond dualisms of the subject/object that construct an inner and outer psychological state, the book pushes forward contemporary theory and analysis within discursive psychology. Discursive Psychology and Embodiment is therefore an essential resource for researchers across the social sciences working within discourse, social interaction, and the turn to the body.
1. Bodies in Interaction, Bodies for Interaction: Discursive Psychology
as an Approach to Embodiment; Sally Wiggins and Karin Osvaldsson
Cromdal.- 2. From Discourse-as-Action to Action-as-Discourse: Embodied
Resistance in Stanley Milgrams Obedience Experiments; Stephen
Gibson.- 3. Managing Embodied Misconduct: Burping and Spitting in Family
Mealtime Interactions; Alexa Hepburn.- 4. Managing Accountability of
Childrens Bodily Conduct: Embodied Discursive Practices in
Preschool; Carolin Demuth.- 5. An Examination of the Discursive Functions of
the Body in Being Autistic; Jessica Nina Lester.- 6. Respecifying Dualities:
The Case of Feel Enquiries Used in Sports Coaching; Edward
Reynolds.- 7. Sensational Driving: Instructing and Calibrating Sensory
Perception in Early Driver Training; Jakob Cromdal, Mathias Broth, Daniel
Björklund-Flärd, and Lena Levin.- 8. Pain Displays as Embodied Activity in
Medical Interactions; Jessica La and Ann Weatherall.- 9. Enacting Emotion:
Embodied Affective Stance in a Medical Education Fiction Seminar; Anja Rydén
Gramner and Sally Wiggins.- 10. Thinking with the Body: Embodying Thinking as
a Practice in Board Games; Emily Hofstetter.- 11. A Word Is Worth a Thousand
Pictures: Language, Interaction, and Embodiment; Derek Edwards and Jonathan
Potter.
Sally Wiggins is Associate Professor in Psychology at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests focus on eating practices in everyday social interaction, and she has previously authored a textbook entitled Discursive Psychology, and has published numerous empirical articles and book chapters on discursive psychology.
Karin Osvaldsson Cromdal is Associate Professor in Social Work at Linköping University, Sweden. She has published on identities and social interaction in primarily institutional settings such as detention homes for troubled youth, helpline and emergency rescue service interaction, and social work counselling.
