
Language and Action
A Structural Model of Behaviour
- 332 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
International Series in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 7: Language and Action: A Structural Model of Behaviour presents studies that tackle human action, relationship between key decisions and outcomes, and the forces that give shape to events. The book particularly focuses on the activity system of conversation. The first chapter provides an introduction to and overview of the structural model of behavior. Chapter 2 reviews several experiments concerning conversation structure. Chapter 3 covers linguistic analogy, while Chapter 4 provides an overview of the structure of discourse. The fifth chapter discusses the theories and models of conversation structure. Chapter 6 tackles the human aspects, while Chapter 7 covers the applications. The eighth chapter presents the conclusion, which includes the evaluation of methods and theoretical issues. The book will be of great interest psychologists, psychiatrists, and other scientists concerned with behavioral structure of conversation.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Language And Action: A Structural Model of Behaviour
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedecation
- Preface
- Introduction To The Series
- List Of Illustrations
- CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
- CHAPTER 2.EXPERIMENTS
- CHAPTER 3. THE LINGUISTIC ANALOGY
- CHAPTER 4. BREAKING THE CODE
- CHAPTER 5. THEORIES AND MODELS OF STRUCTURE
- CHAPTER 6. THE HUMAN ASPECT
- CHAPTER 8. CONCLUSIONS
- Appendix A: GLOSSARY
- Appendix B: EXAMPLE DIALOGUE
- Appendix C: EXAMPLE DIALOGUE
- Appendix D: DICTIONARY OF SPEECH-ACT CATEGORIES
- Appendix E: EXPERIMENTAL SPEECH-ACT SEQUENCES
- Appendix F: KEY TO CLASSROOM STUDY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX