Looking in and speaking out : introspection, consciousness, communication / Robin Wooffitt & Nicola Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wooffitt, Robin.

Contributor:

Hunt, Nicola.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Introspection.

Consciousness.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that it is essential to examine the linguistic and communicative practices that are used in the production of introspective data, thereby making an important contribution to debates about how we may study experience that are relevant to a wide range of disciplines. There are three objectives. The text offers an account of the way in which contemporary researchers are employing introspection methodologies; it argues for the importance of viewing introspective data as discours...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Body Matter; The rise, fall and rise of introspection; Contemporary methods for the collection of introspective data; Analysing the language of introspective reports: methodological considerations; Epistemics and the organisation of introspective reports; Silence and its management; 'And the smell of death and the sound of silence': Poetics and reports of subjectiveexperience; Poetics as achievement; Retrospective interviews and introspection

Interaction in retrospective interviews: The mentation reviewsIntrospection, Description, Consciousness, Action; Back Matter; References; Also Available

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-44552-2

9786613445520

1-84540-335-5

OCLC:

769144478