View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Loughborough University Institutional Repository This item was submitted to Loughborough’s Institutional Repository (https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/) by the author and is made available under the following Creative Commons Licence conditions. For the full text of this licence, please go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ A Model of Discourse in Action Jonathan Potter1, Derek Edwards1, Margaret Wetherell2 1 Discourse and Rhetoric Group, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK Tel: 0509 223384 Fax: 0509 238277
[email protected] [email protected] 2 Faculty of Social Sciences, Walton Hall, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UKMarch 1, 2012 Jonathan Potter is Reader in Discourse Analysis at Loughborough University Department of Social Sciences. He has published numerous articles on fact construction and the relation between discourse and psychology. He is the author of Discourse and Social Psychology (Sage, 1987, with Margaret Wetherell), Discursive Psychology (Sage, 1992, with Derek Edwards) and Mapping the Language of Racism (Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1992, with Margaret Wetherell). He is associate editor of Theory and Psychology. Derek Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at Loughborough University Department of Social Sciences. He has published numerous articles on discourse, cognitivism and knowledge. He is the author of Common Knowledge (with Neil Mercer), Discursive Psychology (Sage, 1992, with Jonathan Potter). He edited Collective Remembering (Sage, 1991, with Dave Middleton). He is associate editor of Papers in Pragmatics and Memory.