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Looking in and speaking out: introspection, consciousness, communication (2011)
Book
Wooffitt, R., & Holt, N. (2011). Looking in and speaking out: introspection, consciousness, communication. Exeter: Imprint Academic

The authors argue it is essential to examine the linguistic and communicative practices that are used in the production of introspective data, and thereby make an important contribution to debates about how we may study experience that are relevant t... Read More about Looking in and speaking out: introspection, consciousness, communication.

Introspective discourse and the poetics of subjective experience (2011)
Journal Article
Wooffitt, R., & Holt, N. (2011). Introspective discourse and the poetics of subjective experience. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44(2), 135-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2011.567097

This article examines poetic phenomena-rhymes, alliteration, puns-that appear in the introspective reports of people who have taken part in a psychology experiment. We argue that these phenomena are a form of discourse poetics identified in conversat... Read More about Introspective discourse and the poetics of subjective experience.