Discourse and Context

A Sociocognitive Approach

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Teun A.Van Dijk

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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.

Author Biography:

Teun A. van Dijk is Professor in the Departament de Traduccio i Filologia at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has edited Discourse Studies (2007) and Racism at the Top (co-edited with Ruth Wodak, 2000) and is the author of Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America (2005) and Ideology (1998).

Release date NZ

July 31st, 2008

Author

Teun A.Van Dijk

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

282

Dimensions

156x233x22

ISBN-13

9780521895590

Product ID

2586761

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