Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts
Explanations identify causes, back up claims and justify actions. Social scientists study them because they reveal how people understand and construct their worlds. This stimulating book offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing.

Using concrete examples to illuminate the range of contemporary approaches, Antaki's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a picture of explanation as a richly social achievement of speaker and audience, involving a balance between delicate manoeuvre and the exercise of discursive power.

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Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts
Explanations identify causes, back up claims and justify actions. Social scientists study them because they reveal how people understand and construct their worlds. This stimulating book offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing.

Using concrete examples to illuminate the range of contemporary approaches, Antaki's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a picture of explanation as a richly social achievement of speaker and audience, involving a balance between delicate manoeuvre and the exercise of discursive power.

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Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts

Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts

by Charles Antaki
Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts

Explaining and Arguing: The Social Organization of Accounts

by Charles Antaki

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Explanations identify causes, back up claims and justify actions. Social scientists study them because they reveal how people understand and construct their worlds. This stimulating book offers a critical review of the major approaches to the study of everyday explaining and arguing.

Using concrete examples to illuminate the range of contemporary approaches, Antaki's concern is to test theory against practice. He draws a picture of explanation as a richly social achievement of speaker and audience, involving a balance between delicate manoeuvre and the exercise of discursive power.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780803986053
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 09/23/1994
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Charles Antaki is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lancaster. He is editor of Analyzing Everyday Explanation (SAGE, 1988).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Attributing Cause
Causal Talk
Explanations in Exoneration
Explanation Slots
Storied Accounts
Explanatory Discourse
Making Claims in Logic and Rhetoric
Backing Claims in Quarrels
Conclusion
Explaining and Arguing in Participants' Own Words
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