Creating social orientation through language : a socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning

Creating social orientation through language : a socio-cognitive theory of situated social meaning / Andreas Langlotz, University of Basel.

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...

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Main Author: Langlotz, Andreas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Series:Converging evidence in language and communication research ; 17.
Subjects:
Communication > Social linguistics.
Communication > Psychological aspects.
Social interaction.
Sociolinguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
psycholinguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Communication > Psychological aspects
Psycholinguistics
Social interaction
Sociolinguistics
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Table of 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.
  • 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.

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