Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Discursive research: themes and debates -- Talking organisations -- Conversation analysis -- Constructing context: relevance and procedural consequentiality -- Talk at work -- Talking cognition -- Discursive psychology -- Core principles of discursive psychology -- Themes in discursive psychology -- Differences between conversation analysis and discursive psychology -- Discursive psychology and discourse analysis -- Conversation analysis, discursive psychology and Critical Discourse Analysis -- Naturalistic materials and empirical methods -- Open-ended interviews -- Naturalistic data -- Part I Psychology in action -- 2 Managing subjectivity in talk -- Introduction -- Managing dispositions to say things -- Not disposed to say too much -- Not disposed to be negative -- Intonation, voice quality and laughter -- Intonation and subjectivity -- Voice modulation and subjective expression -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 3 Emotions in meeting talk -- The action-oriented nature of emotion categories -- The meetings data -- Tainted decisions? -- Third-party concern constructions -- Ascribing concern to other professionals -- Ascribing concern to relatives and clients -- Departures from neutralism -- Psychology, emotion categories and institutions -- Appendix -- NOTES -- 4 Negotiating consciousness: parapsychology and the social organisation of reports of mental states -- Introduction -- Orientation to procedure: accomplishing the work of the experiment -- Conclusions: discursive psychology and discursive parapsychology -- Acknowledgements -- 5 Apologising-in-action: on saying 'sorry' to Indigenous Australians -- Apologising in theory -- A discursive approach to apologising -- Public reasoning in action: letters to a newspaper website.

Emails in support of a national apology -- The Prime Minister's address to the Reconciliation Convention -- No guilt, no apology: apology as admission of guilt in political rhetoric -- No guilt, no apology: contesting Australia's history -- Conclusion -- NOTE -- 6 Mind, mousse and moderation -- Discursive psychology -- Studies of the accomplishment of research techniques -- Market research focus groups as topic -- 1. Moderator stance and interest -- 2. Moderator knowledge -- 3. Displaying informality -- 4. POBAs and the mental lexicon -- Thought in practice -- Reading as psychological display -- First thoughts, gestures, and the psychological thesaurus -- Practices of moderation and psychology -- Theme 1 - psychological implications -- Theme 2 - the psychological thesaurus -- Theme 4 - psychological display and embodiment -- Theme 5 - research methods in practice -- Theme 6 - discursive psychology and institutional organisation -- Part II Professionals and clients -- 7 When patients present serious health conditions as unlikely: managing potentially conflicting issues and constraints -- Introduction -- Data -- Analysis -- Consultation 1 -- Patient's first presentation of appendicitis as a candidate explanation -- Patient's second presentation of appendicitis as a candidate explanation -- Consultation 2 -- Consultation 2a -- Consultation 2b -- Consultation 2c -- Consultation 2d -- Consultation 2e -- Consultation 3 -- Consultation 3a -- Consultation 3b -- Consultation 3c -- Consultation 3d -- Discussion -- NOTES -- 8 Arguing and thinking errors: cognitive distortion as a members' category in sex offender group therapy talk -- Method and materials -- Presentation and analysis of data -- Agency, accountability and stake in descriptions of cognition -- Suicidal thinking: agency and the automaticity of cognition.

'Power Play': suicidal thinking as motivated cognition -- 'You can't see that right now': perceptual deficit as unmotivated cognition -- Summary -- Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- 9 Members' and analysts' interests: 'formulations' in psychotherapy -- Formulations -- Formulations in therapy -- Some comments on the sequential use of formulations -- Data -- Concluding comments -- Appendix -- NOTES -- 10 'Suppose it wasn't possible for you to go any further with treatment, what would you do?' Hypothetical questions in interactions… -- Introduction -- Materials and procedures -- The interactional organisation of hypothetical questions -- The patient's response and the psychiatrist's follow-up questions -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- NOTES -- Part III Youth and institutions -- 11 'Doing reluctance': managing delivery of assessments in peer evaluation -- Peer-group concerns and school's institutional goals -- Initiating peer evaluation: turn devices, instructions and collaborative challenges -- Non-substantial opinions and reluctance work -- Concluding discussion -- Appendix: Swedish transcriptions -- NOTES -- 12 A valid person: non-competence as a conversational outcome -- Putting autism into context -- Research site and data set -- Time for Talking, talking for what? -- Disregarding tellability -- Mismatches on 'granularity' -- Sequential threats -- Misunderstandings caused by expected sequential relevance -- Reaching alignment -- Discussion -- Appendix -- NOTES -- 13 Discursive practices in talking problems during a school-family meeting -- Formulating candidate problems during the school-family meeting -- Co-telling improving relations -- Locating accountability -- Advising -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 14 Food abuse: mealtimes, helplines and 'troubled' eating -- Introduction -- Feeding children as a parental concern.

Negotiating food and 'appetite' -- Family mealtimes -- 'Have you had enough' -- 'You don' want cake then' -- 'I thought she got enough' -- 'I'm full up unless there's any more pudding' -- 'Why are you always full you two' -- 'She's been here so she can prove it' -- NSPCC helpline interaction -- 'She was refusing to eat' -- 'D'ye want sommink to eat' -- 'We know that she wants it' -- 'Try an be a bit firmer with her' -- 'You've got to eat it' -- 'She did actually eat it' -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- 15 Discursive research: applications and implications -- Styles of intervention -- Psychological actions -- Identification of problematic practices -- Social interventions and changes to public policy -- Reworking the empirical paradigm -- Turning institutional practices into strategies -- Epilogue -- Appendix: transcription notation -- References -- Index.