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Representing Reality: Discourse, Rhetoric and Social Construction

By Jonathan Potter

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1996
ISBN
0803984103, 9780803984103, 0803984111, 9780803984110
LCC
BD175 .P67 1996
Open Library ID
OL1015312M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1136474 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
264\355
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions. Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with

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