Language of Mediums and Psychics
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A01=Robin Wooffitt
Agnostic
anomalous experiences
attributive
Attributive Sequence
Author_Robin Wooffitt
CA Research
CA Study
Category=JH
Category=JMX
Category=VXP
claim
cognition
Cold Reading
Contemporary Society
conversation analysis
Conversation Analytic Research
Discourse Identity
discourse studies
discursive
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_mind-body-spirit
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
identity construction
knowledge
Knowledge Acquisition
Knowledge Claim
Leonora Piper
paranormal
Paranormal Cognition
Paranormal Source
Parapsychological Research
parapsychology research
Position Turn
Post-mortem Survival
practitioners
Prior Turn
Psychic Fairs
Psychic Practices
Psychic Practitioners
Psychical Research
psychology
sequence
Sitter's Husband
Sitter’s Husband
social interaction
sources
T3 PP
Tarot Cards
verbal communication in psychic consultations
Product details
- ISBN 9780754642022
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Every week thousands of people in Europe and the USA consult psychic practitioners. Communication is crucial to the performance of psychic powers in a range of settings. Psychic practitioners use language to demonstrate their powers, whether they are reporting the words of their spirit contacts or interpreting the spread of Tarot cards. Their clients also accept or reject this information through talk. This book presents the first sustained study of the verbal interaction between the various kinds of psychic practitioners and their clients. Using conversation analysis, Robin Wooffitt examines the structure of the interaction, focusing on the ways in which psychic practitioners and their clients establish the authenticity of the claimed paranormal powers. Adopting a neutral standpoint towards the status of the claims of psychic practitioners, the book raises important issues about the role of social science in understanding the activities of psychic practitioners and other kinds of parapsychological phenomena. This highly original study will appeal to students and scholars of discourse studies, and to sociologists interested in conversation analysis. It is written in a style accessible to non-specialists, and will also interest parapsychologists and social scientists studying psychic phenomena and the paranormal.
Robin Wooffitt is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, UK. He has authored and co-authored five other books. He has also published in Sociology, The British Journal of Social Psychology, Text, Discourse Studies, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, The Journal of Parapsychology and The European Journal of Parapsychology.
