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Creating social orientation through language : a socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning /
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 comp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Converging evidence in language and communication research ;
17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.