Discourse and context
a socio-cognitive approach
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Author
Publication
2008 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
66,750 words, Guess
Page Count
267 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780521895590
- ISBN-100521895596
- LibraryThing7517898
- Library of Congress Control Number2008015449
- OCLC Control Number191891574
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780521895590
- Better World BooksKR-110-459
- Open LibraryOL18507188M
Classifications
- DDC401/.41
- LCCP302.84 .D54 2008
- LCCHM1206
Description
How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is the first monograph to present a multidisciplinary theory of context and the way context influences language use and discourse. Unlike in earlier approaches, contexts are not defined as objective social 'variables', such as gender or age. Rather, they are constructs of the participants themselves, that is, 'subjective definitions of the communicative situation' that are made explicit in the new sociocognitive notion of context models. These models dynamically control all language use, make sure that discourses are appropriate in the communicative situation and hence are the basis of pragmatics. In this book, context models are studied especially from a (socio) linguistic and cognitive perspective. In another book published by Cambridge University Press, Society and Discourse, Teun A. van Dijk develops the social psycho-logical, sociological and anthro-pological dimensions of the theory of context.
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