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Dariusz Galasiński (Professor in Discourse and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton) is a linguist working in areas traditionally occupied by psychology, and more recently, suicidology. His recent books include Men’s Discourses of Depression (2008) and Fathers, Fatherhood and Mental Illness (2013), and Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes (2017).
He summarises his talk:
I am interested in insights into lived experience offered by discourse analysis. My aim is twofold. First, I want to consider possibilities of discourse analytic insights into experiences which are normally labelled ‘psychological’ and as such are positioned outside the realm of discourse analysis. I want to position discourse analysis as a significant (potentially clinical) counterbalance to the traditional methods of psychological research and assessment. I will focus on two kinds of data, psychological questionnaires and suicide notes, both (relatively) rarely taken up by qualitative discourse analysis.
Second, I want to offer a few methodological remarks on how to achieve the most useful discourse analytic approach to ‘psychological experience’. I shall therefore argue for an ‘ecological’ discourse analysis in which data are ‘had’ rather than ‘collected’.
Wednesday 7 February
1.00-2.30 pm
Jubilee G36
Discourse analysis and psychology
Dariusz Galasiński (Professor in Discourse and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton) is a linguist working in areas traditionally occupied by psychology, and more recently, suicidology. His recent books include Men’s Discourses of Depression (2008) and Fathers, Fatherhood and Mental Illness (2013), and Discourses of Men’s Suicide Notes (2017).
He summarises his talk:
I am interested in insights into lived experience offered by discourse analysis. My aim is twofold. First, I want to consider possibilities of discourse analytic insights into experiences which are normally labelled ‘psychological’ and as such are positioned outside the realm of discourse analysis. I want to position discourse analysis as a significant (potentially clinical) counterbalance to the traditional methods of psychological research and assessment. I will focus on two kinds of data, psychological questionnaires and suicide notes, both (relatively) rarely taken up by qualitative discourse analysis.
Second, I want to offer a few methodological remarks on how to achieve the most useful discourse analytic approach to ‘psychological experience’. I shall therefore argue for an ‘ecological’ discourse analysis in which data are ‘had’ rather than ‘collected’.
Wednesday 7 February
1.00-2.30 pm
Jubilee G36
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