Language and social cognition : expression of the social mind / edited by Hanna Pishwa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pishwa, Hanna.

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 206.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and culture.

Sociolinguistics.

Social perception.

Physical Description:

vi, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2009]

Contents:

Linguistic structures as cues for social-cognitive functions: introduction / Hanna Pishwa

Social cognition and language

The origin of the social approach in language and cognitive research exemplified by studies into the origin of language / Nathalie Gontier

Fused Bodies: sense-making as a phenomenon of interacting, knowledgeable, social bodies / Anders R. Hougaard and Gitte R. Hougaard

Supracultural models, universalism and relativism: the language of personhood in Chinese and American cultures / Jason D. Patent

The development of Turkish and Finnish words related to privacy / Mai Kuha and M. Ali Bolgün

On collective cognition and language / Farzad Sharifian

Social cognition in discourse

Conversational pragmatics and social cognition / Thomas Holtgraves and Blake M. Anderson

The creative construction of social orientation: Situated positioning with English as a lingua franca / Andreas Langlotz

Constructing knowledge schemas in the workplace: a microanalysis / Susan Bridges and Brendan Bartlett

Corporate self-presentation and self-centredness: a case for cognitive critical discourse analysis / Veronika Koller

Distributed cognition and play in the quest for the double helix / L. David Ritchie

Social aspects of verbal irony use / Roger J. Kreuz and Gina M. Caucci

Social cognitive functions of single structures

Attribution theories wired into linguistic categories / Klaus Fiedler and Peter Freytag

Tuned to hidden messages: exploring recurrent word combinations in English / Rainer Schulze

Emotion talk and emotional talk: cognitive and discursive perspectives / Monika Bednarek

From motion to emotion to interpersonal function: the case of fear predicates / Eliza Kitis

Metaphor in mental representations of space, time and society: the cognitive linguistics approach / Paul Chilton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110205862

3110205866

OCLC:

327490382