Language in Social Worlds

by Robinson, W. Peter

• ISBN13: 9780470753453
• ISBN10: 0470753455
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-01-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is the first text on language in communication written from a social psychological perspective that sets issues in their broader biological, sociological and cultural contexts.

Author Biography

W. Peter Robinson is Professor Emeritus of social psychology and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

List of Fifures.

List of Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Contextual Framework for Social Psychology of Language in Communication: Aims and Issues.

2. Language in and out of Context: Structure and Substance.

3. Functions of Language.

4. Non-Verbal Communication in Non-Human Creatures.

5. Human Non-Verbal Communication.

6. Encounter Regulation and Conversation.

7. Regulation of States and Behaviour of Self and Others.

8. Regulation and Marking of Social Relationships: Shaking Hands.

9. Terms of Address and Reference, and Being Polite.

10. Marking of States, Identities, and Settings: Issues.

11. Marking of States, Identities, and Settings: Data and Their Interpretation.

12. The Representational Function (F7).

13. Mass-Mediated Communication: Spirals of Spin and Broken Swords of Truth.

14. Representation and Regulation: Their Relevance to Social Class.

15. Five Theories and a Representation-As-Default Thesis.

16. Retrospect and Prospect.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.