Mind, mousse and moderation

Potter, Jonathan; Puchta, Claudia

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511611216.006

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“…Alternatively, speakers may attempt to deny or downplay stake in order to 'head off the imputation of stake or interest' (Potter, 1996, p.125). Potter and Puchta (2007) show how a moderator of a focus group handled her perceived stake by talking about her independence from the company that manufactured the product in question. Stake inoculation is therefore a key device in making a speaker appear more objective, unbiased and trustworthy.…”

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Translating Management Ideas: A Discursive Devices Analysis

Mueller

Whittle

2011

Organization Studies

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Section: Dealing With Stake and Interestmentioning

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Translating Management Ideas: A Discursive Devices Analysis

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2011

Organization Studies

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“…As I am interested in how the reality of disability, of ADHD, is brought into being, how it is 'real-ized' (Tracy and Mirivel, 2009: 154) by social members, my research objectives are compatible with those in discursive psychology. Work in discursive psychology has been fundamental in demonstrating how cognitive phenomena like thoughts (Antaki, 2006;Potter and Puchta, 2007), attitudes (Billig, 1991;Potter and Wetherell, 1987), and memories (Middleton and Brown, 2005), for example, are not representative of internal mental states, but rather function as resources in conversation. The role of texts, especially within health-care settings, is, moreover, a popular topic in this particular branch of discourse analysis (see e.g.…”

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Measuring disability: The agency of an attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnostic questionnaire

Forbes

2014

Discourse Studies

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Scholars in language and social interaction have long been concerned with the role of texts in institutional settings, studying, for example, how interview schedules actively shape conversational dynamics between participants. While texts have been acknowledged as active in this way, their generative capacity remains largely overlooked. This article argues that like human subjects, texts in interaction enact agency. One text in particular, a screening form used to diagnose the learning disability attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is analyzed to claim that this text brings about the very condition it is designed to measure: a learning disability. Drawing from work in discursive psychology, I show how the measurement requires the client to adopt certain speaking positions, which then enables the text to speak for the client. I also demonstrate how the text constructs otherwise normal behavior as pathological through punctuation and nominalization. Finally, I illustrate how the spatial organization of the text constrains clients’ choices for interacting with it. This article claims that texts produce, rather than reflect, cognitive phenomena, and it moreover encourages that the notion of text as agent be taken seriously, especially when it presents the capacity to disable.

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“…In some cases, researchers may seek to declare a neutral or disinterested stance. In the marketing focus groups studied by Potter and Puchta (, p. 111), for instance, the moderators positioned themselves as ‘independent’ and ‘neutral’, with no allegiance to the company who produced the products. However, the ‘neutral’ stance can backfire if participants view the researcher as uncommitted, ‘amateur’ or aloof (Crang and Cook, , p. 46).…”

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Interest‐Talk as Access‐Talk: How Interests are Displayed, Made and Down‐played in Management Research

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Lenney

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British J of Management

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This paper addresses the methodological issue of how researchers gain access and build trust in order to conduct research in organizations. It focuses, in particular, on the role of interests (what actors want or what they stand to gain or lose) in the researchrelationship. The analysis shows how notions of interests, stake and motive were managed during an action research study in a UK subsidiary of a multinational corporation. The study uses an approach to discourse analysis inspired by the field of discursive psychology to identify four discursive devices: stake inoculation; stake confession; stake attribution; and stake construction. The paper contributes to the understanding of research methodology by identifying the importance of interest-talk in the process of doing management research.

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Mind, mousse and moderation

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Translating Management Ideas: A Discursive Devices Analysis

Translating Management Ideas: A Discursive Devices Analysis

Measuring disability: The agency of an attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnostic questionnaire

Interest‐Talk as Access‐Talk: How Interests are Displayed, Made and Down‐played in Management Research

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