Creating social orientation through language : a socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning / Andreas Langlotz, University of Basel
- Author
- Langlotz, Andreas
- Published
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
- Physical Description
- xix, 366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 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 -- pt. I Social meaning -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- pt. II Towards a socio-cognitive theory of situated social sense-making -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- pt. III Analysing the creative construction of social meaning -- ch. 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 -- ch. 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 -- ch. 9 Conclusion.
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- ISBN
- 9789027239082 (HB ; alk. paper)
9027239088 (HB ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.
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