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Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires: Conversation Analysis and Post-Structuralism in Dialogue

Wetherell, Margaret·1998·Discourse & Society
DOI 10.1177/0957926598009003005
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This article focuses on Schegloff's (1997) comments on critical discourse analysis and evaluates their force in relation to the analysis of a segment of a group discussion with three young white middle-class men concerning an episode in one of the participant's recent sexual history. The post-structuralist-influenced writings of Laclau and Mouffe (1985, 1987) are presented as an alternative analytic frame for the same data. The analysis examines the contextualization of the event which is the topic of the conversation and the positioning taken up and offered to the young man involved, drawing on the analytic concepts of interpretative repertoire and ideological dilemma. A critique of the post-structuralist concept of subject positions is developed and also of the methodological prescriptions Schegloff proposes for critical discourse analysis. The implications for critical discursive research in social psychology are discussed.

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Authors
Wetherell, M.
Venue
Discourse & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1998-07
Volume
9
Issue
3
Pages
387-412
ISSN
  • 0957-9265 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3624
DOI
10.1177/0957926598009003005
OpenAlex
W2137662236
Cited by
1,984
References
0
FWCI
219.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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