Introduction
A Rhetorical-Responsive Version of Social Constructionism
PART ONE: A RHETORICAL-RESPONSIVE VERSION OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
The Conversational Background of Social Life
Beyond Representation
Situating Social Constructionism
Knowing `From Within¿
Dialogue and Rhetoric in the Construction of Social Relations
PART TWO: REALISM, THE IMAGINARY AND A WORLD OF EVENTS
The Limits of Realism
Social Life and the Imaginary
Linguistic Relativity in a World of Events
PART THREE: CONVERSATIONAL REALITIES
In Search of a Past
Therapeutic Re-Authoring
Real and Counterfeit Constructions in Interpersonal Relations
The Manager as a Practical Author
Conversations for Action
Rhetoric and the Recovery of Civil Society
Epilogue
Rhetorical-Responsive Social Constructionism in Summary Form
Afterword - Roy Bhaskar

`[An] immensely thoughtful, informative and persuasive treatment of the "rhetorical-responsive version of social constructionism" via an eclectic blend of, principally, European and American linguistics, philosophy and social psychology... Shotter's book is most important for continuing the work begun by Billig and others bringing recognition via recollection to the rhetorical corpus' - Discourse & Society