Discourse and Context
A Sociocognitive Approach
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:11th Feb '10
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Discusses and develops a theory of 'context' - how do social situations influence language use and conversation?
How do social situations influence language use and conversation? Teun van Dijk discusses and develops a theory of 'context' and its relationship to communication, and argues that it is not the social situation that influences (or is influenced by) conversation, but the way the participants define such a situation.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.
ISBN: 9780521130301
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
Weight: 420g
284 pages