title: Discourse, action, rhetoric: from a perception to an action paradigm in social psychology.
abstract: This article provides a personal account of how discursive social psychology has been used to understand social and political change in South Africa and to reflect on the strengths and limitations of the approach. While celebrating the shift from the perception paradigm to the genuinely social constructionist focus on discursive interaction, the article also argues for an expanded focus on embodied action.
authors.affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. durrheim@ukzn.ac.za
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Durrheim
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012922:Social Change; D013019:South Africa