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Overview

Derek Edwards is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a variety of topics primarily situated within the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Psychology. The main topics addressed in their work include language, discourse, communication strategies, discourse analysis in language studies, and the intersection of language and culture. Additional areas of interest encompass diverse academic research studies, social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, and the relationship between language, metaphor, and cognition.

The subfields of study covered by Derek Edwards further specify their focus on language and linguistics, literature and literary theory, linguistics and language, cultural studies, and general health professions. This multidisciplinary engagement reflects in the publication venues where their research appears.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Qualitative Research in Psychology
  • Przegląd Socjologiczny
  • Research on Language and Social Interaction

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Derek Edwards are:

  • Psychologia dyskursowa, 2023, Przegląd Socjologiczny
  • Dyskurs, poznanie i praktyki społeczne: bogactwo językowej i interakcyjnej powierzchni, 2023, Przegląd Socjologiczny
  • Rethinking attitudes and social psychology - Issues of function, order, and combination in subject-side and object-side assessments in natural settings, 2020, Qualitative Research in Psychology
  • Establishing quality in discursive psychology: Three domains to consider, 2020, Qualitative Research in Psychology
  • How Mental Health Establishes 'Vulnerability' as the Basis for Support from a Housing Helpline: Self-Descriptions and Diagnostic Categories, 2024, Research on Language and Social Interaction

Derek Edwards has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Jerzy Stachowiak, Elizabeth Stokoe, Jonathan Potter, Alexa Hepburn, and Michelle O'Reilly. The nature of these collaborations spans various publications and topics within the general field of discourse and social psychology research.

Best Publications

  • Discursive Psychology

    Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • Discourse and cognition

    Derek Edwards

  • Ideological Dilemmas: A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking

    Michael Billig;Susan Condor;Derek Edwards;Mike Gane

  • Common Knowledge : The Development of Understanding in the Classroom

    Derek Edwards;Neil Mercer

  • El conocimiento compartido: el desarrollo de la comprensión en el aula

    Derek Edwards;Neil Mercer

  • Death and Furniture: the rhetoric, politics and theology of bottom line arguments against relativism

    Derek Edwards;Malcolm Ashmore;Jonathan Potter

  • Extreme Case Formulations: Softeners, Investment, and Doing Nonliteral

    Derek Edwards

  • Categories are for talking: On the cognitive and discursive bases of categorization.

    Derek Edwards

  • Discourse: Noun, Verb or Social Practice?

    Jonathan Potter;Margaret Wetherell;Rosalind Gill;Derek Edwards

  • Language and causation : a discursive action model of description and attribution

    Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • Moaning, whinging and laughing: the subjective side of complaints

    Derek Edwards

  • Script Formulations An Analysis of Event Descriptions in Conversation

    Derek Edwards

  • Discursive psychology, mental states and descriptions

    Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • The Relevant Thing about Her: Social Identity Categories in Use

    Derek Edwards

  • El Análisis del discurso implica analizar: Crítica de seis atajos analíticos

    Charles Antaki;Michael Billig;Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

  • Two to Tango: Script Formulations, Dispositions, and Rhetorical Symmetry in Relationship Troubles Talk

    Derek Edwards

  • A Model of Discourse in Action

    Jonathan Potter;Derek Edwards;Margaret Wetherell

  • `Black this, black that': racial insults and reported speech in neighbour complaints and police interrogations

    Elizabeth Stokoe;Derek Edwards

  • Social Representations and Discursive Psychology: From Cognition to Action

    Jonathan Potter;Derek Edwards

  • Joint remembering: Constructing an account of shared experience through conversational discourse

    Derek Edwards;David Middleton

  • Emotion Discourse

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Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Potter
Jonathan Potter Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Elizabeth Stokoe
Elizabeth Stokoe Loughborough University
Neil Mercer
Neil Mercer University of Cambridge
Margaret Wetherell
Margaret Wetherell University of Auckland
Michael Billig
Michael Billig Loughborough University
Charles Antaki
Charles Antaki Loughborough University
Rosalind Gill
Rosalind Gill City, University of London
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent
Alan Radley
Alan Radley Loughborough University
Michael A. Hogg
Michael A. Hogg Claremont Graduate University

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