How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is a monograph which presents 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 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 psychological, sociological and anthropological dimensions of the theory of context.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521895590
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94966282
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Religious Sociology
Author
Teun A. Van Dijk
Publication Name
Discourse and Context: a Sociocognitive Approach
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Study Guide
Number of Pages
282 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
233mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
580g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Teun A. Van Dijk
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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