Language and Social Cognition : : Expression of the Social Mind / / ed. by Hanna Pishwa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Blake M.,; Bartlett, Brendan,; Bednarek, Monika,; Bolgün, M. Ali,; Bridges, Susan,; Caucci, Gina M.,; Chilton, Paul,; Fiedler, Klaus,; Freytag, Peter,; Gontier, Nathalie,; Holtgraves, Thomas,; Hougaard, Anders R.,; Hougaard, Gitte R.,; Kitis, Eliza,; Koller, Veronika,; Kreuz, Roger J.,; Kuha, Mai,; Langlotz, Andreas,; Patent, Jason D.,; Pishwa, Hanna,; Ritchie, L. David,; Schulze, Rainer,; Sharifian, Fazad,
• HerausgeberIn: Pishwa, Hanna,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 206
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (476 p.)

In a collection of 16 papers, eminent scholars from several disciplines present diverse and yet cohering perspectives on the expression of social knowledge, its acquisition and management. Hence, the volume is an attempt to view the social functions of language in a novel, systematic way. Such an approach has been missing due to the complexity of the matter and the emphasis on purely cognitive properties of language. The volume starts with a presentation of overarching issues of the social nature of humans and their language, providing strong evidence for the social fundaments of human nature and their reflection in language and culture. The second section demonstrates how social functions can be displayed in discourse by using language play and humor, irony and attributions as well as references to social schemas. The chapters in the third part examine a wide range of particular linguistic elements carrying social-cognitive functions. An important finding is that social-cognitive functions have to be inferred on the basis of social knowledge, frequently with the help of non-verbal cues, since languages offer only few direct expressions for them. In other words, linguistic devices used to express social content tend to be multifunctional. Interestingly, this multifunctionality does not prevent their rapid recognition. The volume presents valuable information to linguists by widening the cognitive-linguistic framework and by contributing to a better understanding of the role of pragmatics. It is also beneficial to social and cognitive psychologists by offering a broader view on the encoding and decoding of social aspects. Finally, it offers a number of fruitful ideas to students of cultural and communication studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Linguistic structures as cues for social cognitive functions: Introduction -- Section I: Social cognition and language -- Chapter 2. The origin of the social approach in language and cognitive research exemplified by studies into the origin of language -- Chapter 3. Fused bodies: Sense-making as a phenomenon of interacting, knowledgeable, social bodies -- Chapter 4. Supracultural models, universalism and relativism: The language of personhood in Chinese and American cultures -- Chapter 5. The development of Turkish and Finnish words related to privacy -- Chapter 6. On collective cognition and language -- Section II: Social cognition in discourse -- Chapter 7. Conversational pragmatics and social cognition -- Chapter 8. The creative construction of social orientation: Situated positioning with English as a lingua franca -- Chapter 9. Constructing knowledge schemas in the workplace: A microanalysis -- Chapter 10. Corporate self-presentation and self-centredness: A case for cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis -- Chapter 11. Distributed cognition and play in the quest for the double helix -- Chapter 12. Social aspects of verbal irony use -- Section III: Social cognitive functions of single structures -- Chapter 13. Attribution theories wired into linguistic categories -- Chapter 14. Tuned to hidden messages: Exploring recurrent word combinations in English -- Chapter 15. Emotion talk and emotional talk: Cognitive and discursive perspectives -- Chapter 16. From motion to emotion to interpersonal function: The case of fear predicates -- Chapter 17. Metaphor in mental representations of space, time and society: The cognitive linguistic approach -- Backmatter