ABSTRACT
It is probably fair to say that discourse analysis has been the most commonly used qualitative approach in psychology over the last decade. Since the publication of Potter and Wetherell's 1987 book Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour, discourse research has evolved rapidly, along several different methodological and epistemological lines, and a recent pair of textbooks on the subject identify no fewer than six different versions (Wetherell et al. 2001a, b). Admittedly, these texts cover discourse research in a variety of social science disciplines; however, for various reasons, the discipline boundaries are sometimes blurred in the field of discourse analysis.
