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Critical Discourse Psychology (CDP)

Sarah Brooker Psychology Degree English

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Focus on how language & discourse construct social reality
Discourse resources drawn from existing culture
Focuses on written or spoken "texts" e.g interviews, diaries, conversation
Highlights how people use "interpretive repertories" (commonsense but contradictory explanations)
How people adopt or ascribe "subject positions" (attribute identities)
Talk rhetorically constructed to provide blame/justification as set in context of supplying a narrative
Identifies ideological features of discourse via analysis & investigates how social inequalities are constructed/reconstructed via use of language