Discourse and Social Psychology

TL;DR: How the polyphony of management is constructed in interaction is defined and described through concrete management meeting cases to increase the understanding of micro-level issues of management and challenges the conventional, taken-for-granted assumptions behind organization and management theories.

TL;DR: This article address the echoing sentiment that the function of language is not enough focused on in management as an academic discipline even as it is acknowledged that language lies at the center of the management process.

TL;DR: In this article, the role and place of the foreign language curriculum in policy and planning at the school level is discussed and an introductory treatment of relevant factors in successful foreign language teaching and learning that might be pertinent to the design of school policies is given.

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative phenomenological research was conducted on the basis of semi-structured interviews with seven participants (all of them practising therapists who had experienced recent bereavement), whose accounts were then analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of theory and research in social psychology reveals that while methods of research are scientific in character, theories of social behavior are primarily reflections of contemporary history, and the dissemination of psychological knowledge modifies the patterns of behavior upon which the knowledge is based.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the concern with intersubjectivity in theoretical context, sketches the organization by which it is grounded and defended in ordinary interaction, describes the practices by which trouble in understanding is dealt with, and illustrates what happens when this organization fails to function.

TL;DR: This article examined the connections between grammar and social organization via one of the most pervasive practices of speaking used in talk-in-interaction: yes/no type interrogatives and the turns speakers build in response to them.

TL;DR: The authors distinguishes a series of contingent and necessary problems that arise in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of open-ended or conversational qualitative interviews in psychological research, including the deletion of the interviewer, the conventions for representing interaction, the specificity of analytic observations, the unavailability of the interview set-up and the failure to consider interviews as interaction.