Language in Social Worlds

W. Peter Robinson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

386 Seiten

2002
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-19336-4 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive text on language and communication, written from a social psychological perspective. It shows how language and non-verbal activities are integrated in the process of communication and looks at what language is used for and how it works in context. Descriptions and explanations are accompanied by data and experimental findings.

W. Peter Robinson is Professor Emeritus of social psychology and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.

List of Fifures. List of Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Contextual Framework for Social Psychology of Language in Communication: Aims and Issues.

2. Language in and out of Context: Structure and Substance.

3. Functions of Language.

4. Non-Verbal Communication in Non-Human Creatures.

5. Human Non-Verbal Communication.

6. Encounter Regulation and Conversation.

7. Regulation of States and Behaviour of Self and Others.

8. Regulation and Marking of Social Relationships: Shaking Hands.

9. Terms of Address and Reference, and Being Polite.

10. Marking of States, Identities, and Settings: Issues.

11. Marking of States, Identities, and Settings: Data and Their Interpretation.

12. The Representational Function (F7).

13. Mass-Mediated Communication: Spirals of Spin and Broken Swords of Truth.

14. Representation and Regulation: Their Relevance to Social Class.

15. Five Theories and a Representation-As-Default Thesis.

16. Retrospect and Prospect.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.7.2002
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-631-19336-7 / 0631193367
ISBN-13	978-0-631-19336-4 / 9780631193364
Zustand	Neuware