ABSTRACT
This book is a primer to the vast yet engaging area of discourse and psychology. It delves on several issues and highlighting that human subjectivity is myriad and richly textured. The book describes and maps in detail the major theoretical strategies, salient concepts, methodologies and critical debates as proposed and developed by theorists in discourse analysis, discursive psychology, psychosocial studies and critical psychology. It traces the history and development of discourse analysis and its various meanings, but also how the meaning of discourse has been extended and modified by researchers from other disciplines. Brief sample analyses are given drawing on concepts from the approaches discussed, demonstrating their practical applications for students, researchers and teachers. The book also includes the fundamentally significant ideas of each approach.
