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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 1566-7774 ; 17 |
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Converging evidence in language and communication research ; 17.
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| Contents |
Creating Social Orientation Through Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures and tables -- Conventions of data presentation -- Tourist-information data -- Forum-discussion data -- Introduction -- 0.1 Social orientation -- A vital phenomenon -- 0.2 Bridging cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional approaches to situated meaning-construction -- A theoretical challenge and lacuna -- 0.3 The data -- Instances of creative social positioning in tourist-information and online workgroups -- 0.4 Towards a theory of creative social positioning through language -- Part I. Social meaning -- Chapter 1. Charting the dimensions of social meaning -- 1.1 Dimensions of social meaning -- 1.2 Dimensions of social meaning in eHistLing -- 1.3 The social ecology of the tourist-information office -- Chapter 2. Social meaning and language -- 2.1 Joint actions and practices -- The interactional arenas for the construction of social meaning -- 2.1.1 Social processes and their management through joint actions -- 2.1.2 Institutional practices -- The social-normative background for social engagement -- 2.2 Language as a tool for the construction of social orientation -- 2.3 Balancing transactional and relational goals through language -- 2.3.1 Linguistic tools to focus on social meaning and relational goals -- 2.4 Linguistic practices and social meaning in the social environments of eHistLing and the tourist-information office -- 2.4.1 Electing a moderator in eHistLing -- Social goals and communicative implementation processes -- 2.4.2 Creating the image of service at the tourist-information front-desk -- Chapter 3. How to integrate cognitive and interactional views of social sense-making? Towards a blueprint for a socio-cognitive model of social orientation |
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3.1 Social cognition -- The cognitive construction of 'social reality' -- 3.1.1 A cognitive model of social sense-making -- 3.1.2 The cognitivist view of mental processing -- 3.2 Conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and their praxeological critique of cognitivism -- 3.2.1 Meaning and cognition in CA and ethnomethodology -- 3.2.2 Can we do without cognitive modelling? -- 3.3 Desiderata for a socio-cognitive theory of creative social positioning -- Part II. Towards a socio-cognitive theory of situated social sense-making -- Chapter 4. Dynamic cognition in social practice -- 4.1 Cognition in its socio-cultural ecology -- 4.1.1 The embodiment of cognition in cultural worlds of experience -- 4.1.2 The socio-cultural embodiment of conceptualization and categorization -- 4.2 Conceptualization in action -- 4.2.1 Actions and conceptualizations -- 4.2.2 The tourist-information transaction as an action-based conceptualization practice -- 4.3 Dynamic conceptualization -- 4.3.1 Barsalou's model of situated conceptualization -- 4.3.2 The construction and modulation of situated conceptualizations through blending -- Chapter 5. Language: The ultimate socio-cognitive technology: Towards a socio-cognitive semiotics -- 5.1 Scaffolded conceptualization and epistemic action -- 5.2 Joint conceptualization through linguistic coordination -- 5.2.1 Joint actions and common ground -- 5.2.2 Coordination devices as epistemic tools for common-ground construction -- 5.3 The socio-cognitive grounding of symbolic conventions -- 5.3.1 What is a linguistic convention? -- 5.3.2 The socio-cognitive predispositions for meaning coordination through symbol use -- 5.3.3 Symbols as socio-cognitive conventions for meaning coordination -- 5.4 Linguistic cues and their channeling function for common ground construction -- 5.4.1 Channelling attention in discourse |
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5.4.2 The coupling of words with simulators -- 5.5 Coordinated linguistic epistemic actions -- 5.6 Adaptation of symbols and linguistic actions to the task-domain -- Grounding meaning-coordination in complex activities -- 5.6.1 Speech genres as complex socio-cognitive sense-making practices -- Chapter 6. Cueing situated social conceptualizations: The epistemic scaffolding of social orientation through language -- 6.1 Situated conceptualizations of social meaning -- 6.2 Balancing transactional and relational goals in dynamic, socio-cognitive sense-making systems -- 6.2.1 The socio-cognitive coupling of transactional and relational meaning -- 6.2.2 The social effects of creative departures from speech activities -- 6.3 An example of creative social positioning on the web -- 6.4 A socio-cognitive model of creative social positioning -- 6.5 Generating the default moderator-concept by implementing an institutionalized linguistic practice -- 6.5.1 Meaning-coordination steps in group-moderation -- 6.5.2 Creating spatialized social meaning by construing transactional meaning -- 6.6 Layering social meaning -- 6.6.1 Layering -- 6.6.2 The creative construction of a situated social conceptualization through blending -- 6.7 Sharing the creative process of situated social conceptualization -- Part III. Analysing the creative construction of social meaning -- Chapter 7. The creation of social meaning through humour -- 7.1 Humour -- On the complexity of a familiar phenomenon -- 7.2 Cognitive processes of interpreting linguistic humour -- 7.3 The interactional management of humour and its social impact -- 7.4 Social meaning and humour -- 7.4.1 Butts of humour -- 7.4.2 Dimensions of positioning and social functions of humour -- 7.4.3 Correlating the social functionalities of humour with its cognitive and social interactional processes |
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Chapter 8. The use of humour for creative social positioning in tourist-information and online workgroup communication -- 8.1 Linguistic humour as a socio-cognitive strategy for creative social positioning in eHistLing -- 8.1.1 Constructing a new moderator concept by staging a fictional conflict -- 8.1.2 Electing the 'gang leader' -- 8.1.3 The quality of humour and the construction of idioculture in eHistling -- 8.2 No way -- The social functionality of humour at the front-desk -- 8.2.1 Constructing personal common ground -- 8.2.2 Offering the unexpected -- 8.2.3 Fostering personal common ground under stress -- 8.2.4 Self-protection -- 8.2.5 The quality of humour in front-desk interactions -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This monograph develops a new socio-cognitive theory of sense-making for analyzing the creative management of situated social meaning. Drawing on cognitive-linguistic and social-interactional heuristics in an innovative way, the book both theorizes and demonstrates how embodied cognizers create complex situated conceptualizations of self and other, which guide and support their interactions. It shows how these sense-making processes are managed through the coordinated social interaction of two (or more) communicative partners. To illustrate the theory, the book draws on two distinct data sets: front-desk tourist-information transactions and online-workgroup discussions. It scrutinizes how the communicative partners use verbal humour as a powerful strategy to creatively establish a situated social image for themselves. This book addresses specialists and advanced students in the areas of cognitive linguistics as well as interactional approaches to language. Moreover, it will be of great value to readers interested in verbal humour, business communication, and computer-mediated communication |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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Communication -- Social linguistics
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Communication -- Psychological aspects.
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Social interaction.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics
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sociolinguistics.
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psycholinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Communication -- Psychological aspects
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Psycholinguistics
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Social interaction
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Sociolinguistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015006087 |
| ISBN |
9789027268624 |
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9027268622 |
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