Speech and Reasoning in Everyday Life

Klappentext This book examines the nature and operation of social thought and language as used in everyday life. Zusammenfassung This book examines the nature and operation of social thought and language as used in everyday life! and looks at social thinking through the complex patternings and functions of discourse. It is based on extensive empirical evidence about the language of contemporary racism and nationalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Michael Billig; Part I: 1. General introduction; 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations; Part II: 3. Cognitive centration; 4. Social causality: the types of explanatory discourses; 5. The perception of time; Part III: 6. Integration and new perspectives; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Windisch Uli, Uli Windisch, Windisch Uli
• Assisted by: Michael Billig (Foreword), Ian Patterson (Translation)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521129107
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12910-7
• Series: European Monographs in Social; European Monographs in Social Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology