Bridging Incommensurate Discourses : A Response to Mackay  

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McNamee, Sheila

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Psychology vol. 13 no. 3 (Jun. 2003), page 387–396.
Topik: PSYCHOTHERAPY; interactive moment; language as activity; meaning; persuasion; psycho therapy; realist / anti - realist; situated activity; social construction; incommensurate; discourses
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Mackay (2003) argues that the meaning-making literature places an emphasis on meaning from a 'meaning as salience' perspective, which he claims constructionists use, illogically, to support an anti-realist view. In response, first, this article attempts to articulate language (from a constructionist stance) as an engaged activity, not a tool used to talk about the world. It is the discursive emphasis on language as an activity, as opposed to the semiotic emphasis on linguistic systems as a means through which we obtain knowledge, that positions constructionists differently vis a vis issues of truth, reality, meaning and objectivity. Second, this article attempts to perform constructionism in action by offering a way to bridge incommensurate discourses in such a manner that we can create meaningful and useful ways of going on together.

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