Editing Discursive psychology (section)

==History==
The origins of what is now termed "discursive psychology" can arguably be traced to the late 1980s, and the collaborative research and analysis sessions that took place as part of [[Loughborough University]]'s then newly formed Discourse and Rhetoric Group (DARG).<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.2044-8309.2012.02096.x |pmid=22554222|url=https://www.academia.edu/1836712|title=Twenty five years of discursive psychology|year=2012|last1=Augoustinos|first1=Martha|last2=Tileagă|first2=Cristian|journal=British Journal of Social Psychology|volume=51|issue=3|pages=405–412}}</ref> A key landmark was the publication of [[Jonathan Potter]] and [[Margaret Wetherell]]'s classic text ''Discourse and social psychology: Beyond attitudes and behaviour'' in 1987. Charles Antaki, writing in the ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', described the impact of this book:

{{blockquote|Potter and Wetherell have genuinely presented us with a different way of working in social psychology. The book's clarity means that it has the power to influence a lot of people ill-at-ease with traditional social psychology but unimpressed with (or simply bewildered by) other alternatives on offer. It could rescue social psychology from the sterility of the laboratory and its traditional [[Mentalism (psychology)|mentalism]].}}

The field itself was originally labeled as DP during the early 1990s by Derek Edwards and Potter at Loughborough University. It has since been developed and extended by a number of others, including (but by no means limited to): Charles Antaki, Malcolm Ashmore, [[Frederick T. Attenborough|Frederick Attenborough]], [[Bethan Benwell]], Steve Brown, Carly Butler, Derek Edwards, [[Alexa Hepburn]], Eric Laurier, Hedwig te Molder, [[Susan Speer|Sue Speer]], Liz Stokoe, Cristian Tileaga, Sally Wiggins and [[Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson|Sue Wilkinson]]. Discursive psychology draws on the [[philosophy of mind]] of [[Gilbert Ryle]] and the later [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], the rhetorical approach of [[Michael Billig]], the [[ethnomethodology]] of [[Harold Garfinkel]], the [[conversation analysis]] of [[Harvey Sacks]] and [[Sociology of scientific knowledge|the sociology of scientific knowledge]] of those like [[Mike Mulkay]], [[Steve Woolgar]] and [[Bruno Latour]]. The term "discursive psychology" was designed partly to indicate that there was not just a methodological shift at work in this form of analysis, but also, and at the same time, that it involved some fairly radical theoretical rethinking.