Open AccessTheoretical assumptions underlying discursive and narrative approaches in psychology
Author(s) -
Pavlović Jelena,
Vladimir Džinović,
Milošević Nikoleta
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
psihologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1451-9283
pISSN - 0048-5705
DOI - 10.2298/psi0604365p
Subject(s) - narrative , epistemology , discursive psychology , narrative psychology , narrative inquiry , psychology , narrative network , sociology , discourse analysis , narrative criticism , linguistics , philosophy
There has been a significant increase in the research interest for the discursive and narrative approaches over the last two decades. Currently, these approaches hold a leading position within qualitative research methods. Philosophical and theoretical assumptions underlying these approaches have been discussed in this paper from their very foundations to the conceptual considerations and introduction of the basic characteristics of particular types of discourse and narrative analysis. A special attention has been paid to the discursive psychology, the Foucauldian discourse analysis, the archeology of knowledge and the life story research. This text represents one of many interpretations of targeted methods of the new paradigm