Language and Social Cognition : : Expression of the Social Mind /

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

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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 ap...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (476 p.)
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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

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