`For those already familiar with discursive work it will be a joy - Edwards writes with enormous clarity and insight. For psychologists whose work involves an understanding of the relations between language and cognition this book will be essential reading.... This is a demanding book that will repay close attention. It can also be dipped into as a resource for the brilliant reworkings of traditional psychological topic areas such as emotion language cognition categories AI narrative scripts and developmental psychology. If you want a glimpse into the future of psychology get this book - the end of cognitivism starts here′ - History and Philosophy of Psychology The central project of this mult