The Social and Psychological Contexts of Language

List of contents

Introduction; 1: The Contexts of Language; 2: The Social Significance of Speech in the Job Interview; 3: The Influence of Patients' Speech upon Doctors: The Diagnostic Interview; 4: Interpersonal Attraction and Verbal Behavior in the Initial Interview; 5: The Unconscious Element in Intercultural Communication; 6: Graduates of Early Immersion: Retrospective Views of Grade 11 Students and Their Parents; 7: Lexical Variations in Intensity, Immediacy, and Diversity: An Axiomatic Theory and Causal Model; 8: The Functions of Nonverbal Signs in Conversation; 9: Person-Centered Speech, Psychological Development, and the Contexts of Language Usage; 10: Sociolinguistics: A Social Psychological Perspective

About the author

R. N. St. Clalr, H. Giles

Summary

Published in the year 1982, The Social and Psychological Contexts of Language is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Psychology.

Product details

• Assisted by: H. Giles (Editor), Giles H. (Editor), R. N. St. Clalr (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1982
• EAN: 9780898590210
• ISBN: 978-0-89859-021-0
• No. of pages: 350
• Weight: 810 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Psycholinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics