Language and Social Cognition
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Language and Social Cognition

Expression of the Social Mind

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  2. English
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Language and Social Cognition

Expression of the Social Mind

About this book

In a collection of 16 papers, eminent scholars from several disciplines present diverse and yet cohering perspectives on the expression of social knowledge, its acquisition and management. Hence, the volume is an attempt to view the social functions of language in a novel, systematic way. Such an approach has been missing due to the complexity of the matter and the emphasis on purely cognitive properties of language.

The volume starts with a presentation of overarching issues of the social nature of humans and their language, providing strong evidence for the social fundaments of human nature and their reflection in language and culture. The second section demonstrates how social functions can be displayed in discourse by using language play and humor, irony and attributions as well as references to social schemas. The chapters in the third part examine a wide range of particular linguistic elements carrying social-cognitive functions. An important finding is that social-cognitive functions have to be inferred on the basis of social knowledge, frequently with the help of non-verbal cues, since languages offer only few direct expressions for them. In other words, linguistic devices used to express social content tend to be multifunctional. Interestingly, this multifunctionality does not prevent their rapid recognition.

The volume presents valuable information to linguists by widening the cognitive-linguistic framework and by contributing to a better understanding of the role of pragmatics. It is also beneficial to social and cognitive psychologists by offering a broader view on the encoding and decoding of social aspects. Finally, it offers a number of fruitful ideas to students of cultural and communication studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1. Linguistic structures as cues for social cognitive functions: Introduction
  4. Chapter 2. The origin of the social approach in language and cognitive research exemplified by studies into the origin of language
  5. Chapter 3. Fused bodies: Sense-making as a phenomenon of interacting, knowledgeable, social bodies
  6. Chapter 4. Supracultural models, universalism and relativism: The language of personhood in Chinese and American cultures
  7. Chapter 5. The development of Turkish and Finnish words related to privacy
  8. Chapter 6. On collective cognition and language
  9. Chapter 7. Conversational pragmatics and social cognition
  10. Chapter 8. The creative construction of social orientation: Situated positioning with English as a lingua franca
  11. Chapter 9. Constructing knowledge schemas in the workplace: A microanalysis
  12. Chapter 10. Corporate self-presentation and self-centredness: A case for cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis
  13. Chapter 11. Distributed cognition and play in the quest for the double helix
  14. Chapter 12. Social aspects of verbal irony use
  15. Chapter 13. Attribution theories wired into linguistic categories
  16. Chapter 14. Tuned to hidden messages: Exploring recurrent word combinations in English
  17. Chapter 15. Emotion talk and emotional talk: Cognitive and discursive perspectives
  18. Chapter 16. From motion to emotion to interpersonal function: The case of fear predicates
  19. Chapter 17. Metaphor in mental representations of space, time and society: The cognitive linguistic approach
  20. Backmatter