Right and Wrong Footing

This paper comments on Leudar and Antaki's (1996) argument that psychologists need to pay more attention to issues of footing and discourse participation. While strongly endorsing the general argument, problems are identified with some of the specific claims and analyses. First, the paper unhelpfully conflates the issue of failure to deal with footing with the issue of relating talk to general theories and arguments. Second, it suffers from problems of internal coherence with respect to its critique of others. Third, there are limitations to its theorizing of discourse participation.