Margaret Wetherell (born 24 November 1954[1]) is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.
Margaret Wetherell | |
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Born | 24 November 1954 |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Open University |
Main interests | Discourse analysis |
Website | open.ac.uk/Margaret_Wetherell |
Wetherell worked for 23 years at the Open University, UK from which she retired as Emeritus Professor in 2011. She then took up a part-time post of Professor in Psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.[2]
Wetherell has promoted a discursive approach to psychology. Her 1987 book, Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour, cowritten with Jonathan Potter, was very influential, particularly in social psychology, though also in other fields (e.g. Wood & Kroger, 2000). While discourse analysis has many different meanings, Wetherell's approach has been quite catholic in line with other anglophone discourse analysts like Gilbert & Mulkay (1984).
Wetherell asserts that social actions and routines are formed within our respective social organizations, and that we can not separate a bodies, talk, and text.[3]
In 2010/11 she led a collaboration on identity funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).[2]
data sheet (b. 11/24/54)