PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Language Game, Private Language Argument

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 358
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Data taken from (1) natural occurring talk, (2) interviews i. e. talk shows, and (3) phone talk. How do people use psychological concepts in everyday life. Looks at how language is a cultural resource for doing certain interactional things like discounting, softening the blow, factualizing, getting the upper hand, avoiding or giving blame, and extreme case formulations (ecf) to do being racist, sexist, etc. Looks at the categories people use, categories they put themselves in, put others in, put events in. The focus is on participants" meaning: how s interprets what h is saying, you know what i mean? . If cognition is social rather than private, then : we learn the rules of use by participating in language games, cognitive state terms how do people use them strategically.