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Volume 6 Number 1
Spring 2012
| Taking a
Pragmatic Approach to Dialogical Science (Commentary) Georgia Lepper University of Kent, United Kingdom |
pp. 149-159 |
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ABSTRACT. In this
commentary in this special issue on psychotherapy as
a dialogical enterprise, I consider the current
debates in dialogical science represented in these
contributions, and the issues arising from these
debates for the ongoing project of applying
dialogical methods of analysis to clinical
interaction. I then propose a perspective from the
discipline of pragmatics which, I suggest, offers a
grounded empirical method, with a wide range of
findings to draw upon, which could resolve some of
the theoretical and practical issues in the
contemporary practice of dialogical science. A
practical application is offered by way of
demonstration. Keywords:
dialogical science; pragmatics; narrative;
interaction |
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