Language in Social Worlds

W. Peter Robinson (Autor)

Software / Digital Media

392 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-75345-3 (ISBN)

Infos

* This is 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.

Autor

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

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2008
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 161 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 678 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-470-75345-5 / 0470753455
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-75345-3 / 9780470753453
• Zustand: Neuware