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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      31 July 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511481499
      9780521895590
      9780521130301
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481499
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 282 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Linguistic Anthropology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Anthropology, Language and Linguistics
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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.

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    • Frontmatter
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    • Contents
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    • Preface
      pp vii-xii
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    • Acknowledgements
      pp xiii-xiv
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    • 1 - Towards a theory of context
      pp 1-27
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    • 2 - Context and language
      pp 28-55
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    • 3 - Context and cognition
      pp 56-110
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    • 4 - Context and discourse
      pp 111-216
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    • 5 - Conclusions
      pp 217-225
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    • References
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    • Subject index
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    • Author index
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