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Language in Social Worlds

ISBN: 978-0-631-19335-7
Hardcover
386 pages
September 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.

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