Language as Social Action : Social Psychology

This vol summarizes, interprets & itegrates a broad range of resrch & theorizng based on the relationship betwn social pyscholgy & language. It is intended for researchrs, graduate studnts & particularly relevant for social psychologists & psychlinguists

Preface

xi

Introduction: The Social Bases of Language and Linguistic Underpinnings of Social Behavior

1

(1)

Linguistic Underpinnings of Social Processes

2

(2)

Social Bases of Language

4

(1)

Overview of Major Themes

5

(3)

Language Use as Action

5

(1)

Language Use as Interpersonal Action

6

(1)

Language Use as Contextualized Action

7

(1)

Language Use as Coordinated Action

7

(1)

Language Use as Thoughtful Action

7

(1)

Conclusion

8

(1)

Speech Acts and Intentions: The Things We Do With Words

9

(28)

John Austin and the Development of Speech Act Theory

10

(2)

Speech Act Taxonomy and Felicity Conditions

12

(4)

John Searle

Speech Acts and Intentions

16

(1)

Recognizing Illocutionary Force: How Do People Know What Others Are Doing With Their Words?

17

(4)

Indirect Speech Acts

21

(6)

Inferential Approaches

21

(2)

Grice's Theory of Conversational Implicature

23

(3)

Idiomatic Approaches

26

(1)

Comprehending Indirect Speech Acts: Psycholinguistic Evidence

27

(6)

Particularized versus Generalized Implicatures

30

(2)

Conventionality

32

(1)

Conclusion

33

(4)

The Interpersonal Underpinnings of Talk: Face Management and Politeness

37

(27)

Politeness and Language Production

38

(11)

Goffman, Face, and Face-Work

38

(1)

Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory

39

(2)

Brown and Levinson's Politeness Strategies

41

(2)

Off-Record Politeness

43

(1)

Negative Politeness

44

(2)

Positive Politeness

46

(1)

Interpersonal Determinants of Politeness

47

(2)

Evaluation of Politeness Theory

49

(10)

Ordering of Politeness Strategies

49

(4)

Effects of Interpersonal Variables

53

(3)

Status of the Face Concept

56

(3)

Politeness and Comprehension

59

(2)

Conclusion

61

(3)

The Interpersonal Consequences of Talk: Impression Management and Person Perception

64

(25)

Social Variation

65

(9)

Language Styles or Registers

70

(2)

Extralinguistic Variables

72

(1)

Content Variables

72

(2)

Stylistic Variation

74

(7)

Politeness and Impressions

76

(2)

Accommodation Theory

78

(3)

Conversational Rule Violations and Impressions

81

(5)

Conclusion

86

(3)

Conversational Structure

89

(32)

Conversation Analysis

90

(3)

Adjacency Pairs

93

(13)

Preference Agreement

96

(4)

Opening and Closing Conversations

100

(3)

Presequences

103

(2)

Adjacency Pairs and Speech Act Theory

105

(1)

Turn Taking and Repair

106

(5)

Repair

108

(1)

Extended Turns at Talk

109

(2)

Conversational Coherence

111

(5)

Labov and Fanschel's Therapeutic Discourse

113

(2)

Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Conversational Structure

115

(1)

Conclusion

116

(5)

Conversational Perspective Taking

121

(29)

The Nature of Perspective Taking

122

(6)

Common Ground and Mutual Knowledge

123

(5)

Empirical Research on Perspective Taking

128

(6)

Do Speakers Attempt to Take the Hearer's Perspective?

128

(3)

How Good Are People at Taking Another's Perspective?

131

(3)

Conversational Interaction and Common Ground

134

(7)

Grounding

135

(1)

Collaboration

136

(5)

Perspective Taking, Attitudes, and Speech Acts

141

(5)

Perspective Taking and Speech Act Recognition

144

(2)

Conclusion

146

(4)

Language and Social Thought

150

(27)

Early Tests of the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis

151

(8)

Reasoning

155

(3)

Issues and Recent Research

158

(1)

Language Use

159

(4)

Implicit Causality

163

(7)

The Linguistic Category Model

164

(3)

Explanations of Implicit Causality

167

(3)

Conversational Pragmatics and Cognition

170

(4)

Conclusion

174

(3)

Summary: Language as Social Action

177

(24)

Language as Action

177

(13)

Language as Contextualized Action

180

(2)

Language as Interpersonal Action---Interpersonal Determinants

182

(2)

Language as Interpersonal Action---Interpersonal Consequences

184

(2)

Language as Thoughtful Action

186

(2)

Language as Coordinated Action

188

(2)

Linguistic Underpinnings of Social Behavior

190

(6)

Person Perception and Impression Management

190

(3)

Social Reasoning

193

(1)

Attitudes and Prejudice

194

(1)

Aggression, Altruism, and Beyond

195

(1)

Social Bases of Language Use

196

(3)

Conclusion

199

(2)

References

201

(20)

Author Index

221

(8)

Subject Index

229

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