Language and social cognition
Subtitle: expression of the social mind
By: edited by Hanna Pishwa.
Contributors: Pishwa, Hanna.
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 206
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9783110205862
Subjects: Language and culture; Sociolinguistics; Social perception
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: linguistic structures as carriers of social-cognitive functions / Hanna Pishwa; title: Section I: Social cognition and language: 1. The origin of the social approach in language and cognitive research exemplified by studies into the origin of language / Nathalie Gontier; title: 2. Fused Bodies: Sense-making as a phenomenon of interacting, knowledgeable, social bodies / Anders R. Hougaard & Gitte R. Hougaard; title: 3. Supracultural models, universalism and relativism: Chinese and American views of personhood / Jason D. Patent; title: 4. On collective cognition / Farzad Sharifian; title: 5. The development of Turkish and Finnish words related to privacy / Mai Kuha and M. Ali Bolgün; title: Section II: Social cognition and discourse : 6. The creative construction of social orientation : Situated positioning with English as a lingua franca / Andreas Langlotz; title: 7. Distributed cognition and play in the quest for the double helix / David Ritchie; title: 8. Social Aspects of Verbal Irony Use / Roger J. Kreuz and Gina M. Caucci; title: 9. Conversational pragmatics and social cognition / Thomas Holtgraves and Blake M. Anderson; title: 10. Corporate self-presentation and self-centredness: a case for cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis / Veronika Koller; title: 11. Constructing knowledge schemas in the workplace: A microanalysis / Susan Bridges and Brendan Bartlett; title: Section III: Social cognitive functions of single structures: 12. Attribution Theories Wired Into Linguistic Categories / Klaus Fieder and Peter Freytag; title: 13. Metaphor in mental representations of space, time and society: the cognitive linguistics approach / Paul Chilton; title: 14. Emotion talk and emotional talk: cognitive and discursive perspectives / Monika Bednarek; title: 15. From motion to emotion to interpersonal function: The case of fear predicates / Eliza Kitis; title: 16. Tuned to hidden messages: Exploring recurrent word combinations in English / Rainer Schulze.