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Bakhtin’s chronotope, connotations, & discursive psychology: Towards a richer interpretation of experience
Cresswell, J. Sullivan, Paul W.
Cresswell, J.
Sullivan, Paul W.
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2020
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© 2018 Taylor & Francis. The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Qualitative Research in Psychology, 12 Dec 2018 http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14780887.2018.1548674.
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In this paper, we draw on the Bakhtinian concept of chronotope to make the theoretical argument that the turn to embodiment can be supplemented through a consideration of connotation in discursive psychology. We use Billig’s conception of linguistic repression as a test-case as to how connotation can supplement discursive analysis, but using our own interview material to do so. From establishing the case that connotation, understood through the lens of chronotope, is potentially of vital interest to discursive psychology, we move to drawing out three implications for this for doing qualitative research differently. First of all, we suggest that researchers need to feel the chronotope of the interview to manage its connotations in vivo. Secondly, we draw attention to the role of the absent other in everyday speech and how this absent other can be analysed differently to a typical discourse analysis - as layering connotations into speech. Finally, we draw attention to the hermeneutic attitude of earnest irony when doing research as a further means of generating as well as managing connotations.
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Cresswell J and Sullivan P (2020) Bakhtin’s chronotope, connotations, & discursive psychology: Towards a richer interpretation of experience. Qualitative Research in Psychology. 17(1): 121-142.
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