Discourse and Context

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-89559-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

How do social situations influence language use, discourse and conversation? This book is the first monograph to present 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 new 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van Dijk, Teun A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Towards a theory of context; 2. Context and language; 3. Context and cognition; 4. Context and discourse; 5. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Van Dijk, Teun A.
Teun A. van Dijk is Professor in the Departament de Traducció i Filologia at the Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He has edited Discourse Studies (2007) and Racism at the Top (co-edited with Ruth Wodak, 2000) and is the author of Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America (2005) and Ideology (1998).