Margaret Wetherell Explained

Margaret Wetherell
Birth Date:	1954 11, df=yes
Workplaces:	Open University
Main Interests:	Discourse analysis
Website:	open.ac.uk/Margaret_Wetherell

Margaret Wetherell (born 24 November 1954^[1]) is a prominent academic in the area of discourse analysis.

Career

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.

Work

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.^[2]

In 2010/11 she led a collaboration on identity funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Selected bibliography

Books

• Book: Wetherell . Margaret . Potter . Jonathan . Stringer . Peter . Jonathan Potter . Social texts and context: literature and social psychology . Routledge & Kegan Paul . London Boston . 1984 . 9780710095534 .
• Book: Wetherell . Margaret . Potter . Jonathan . Jonathan Potter. Discourse and social psychology: beyond attitudes and behaviour . . London Newbury Park, California . 1987 . 9780803980563 .
• Book: Wetherell . Margaret . Sapsford . Roger . Still . Arthur . Miell . Dorothy . Stevens . Richard . Dorothy Miell . Theory and social psychology . . London Thousand Oaks California . 1998 . 9780761958390 .
• Book: Wetherell . Margaret . Miell . Dorothy . Dorothy Miell . Doing social psychology . . London Thousand Oaks, California . 1998 . 9780761960492 . registration .
• Book: Wetherell . Margaret . Miell . Dorothy . Sapsford . Roger . Still . Arthur . Stevens . Richard . Dorothy Miell . Theory and social psychology . . London Thousand Oaks California . 1998 . 9780761958390 .
• Book: Wetherell . Margaret . Taylor . Stephanie . Yates . Simeon J. . Discourse theory and practice: a reader . . D843 Course: Discourse Analysis . London Thousand Oaks California . 2001 . 9780761971566 .
• Book: Wetherell . Margaret . Taylor . Stephanie . Yates . Simeon J. . Discourse as data: a guide for analysis . . D843 Course: Discourse Analysis . London Thousand Oaks, California . 2001 . 9780761971580 .
• Book: Wetherell, Margaret . Affect and emotion a new social science understanding . . Los Angeles London . 2012 . 9780857028570 .

Journal articles

• Wetherell . Margaret . Potter . Jonathan . Stiven . Hilda . Jonathan Potter . Unequal egalitarianism: a preliminary study of discourses concerning gender and employment opportunities . . 26 . 1 . 59–71 . 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1987.tb00761.x . March 1987 .
• Wetherell . Margaret . Positioning and interpretative repertoires: conversation analysis and post-structuralism in dialogue . . 9 . 3 . 387–412 . 10.1177/0957926598009003005 . July 1998 . 145411889 .
• Wetherell . Margaret . Beyond binaries . . 9 . 3 . 399–406 . 10.1177/0959354399093009 . June 1999 . 220400917 .
• Wetherell . Margaret . Edley . Nigel . Negotiating hegemonic masculinity: imaginary positions and psycho-discursive practices . . 9 . 3 . 335–356 . 10.1177/0959353599009003012 . August 1999 . 145350243 .

Further reading

• Book: Gilbert . G. Nigel . Mulkay . Michael . Opening Pandora's box: a sociological analysis of scientists' discourse . . Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York . 1984 . 9780521274302 .
• Book: Wood . Linda A. . Kroger . Rolf O. . Doing discourse analysis: methods for studying action in talk and text . . Thousand Oaks, California . 2000 . 9780803973510 .

External links

• Profile page: Margaret Wetherell Open University

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wetherell, Margaret, 1954- . Library of Congress . 1 June 2015 . data sheet (b. 11/24/54) .
2. Gravel-Patry . Fanny . May 3, 2020 . Meaning, Feeling, Doing: Affective Image Operations and Feminist Literatures of Care on Instagram . Electronic Book Review. 10.7273/dz99-v904 .