Psychology of language [[electronic resource] ] : a critical introduction / / Muchael A. Forrester

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778317603321
• Autore: Forrester Michael A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : SAGE, 1996
• ISBN: 1-4462-7922-7; 9786612262609; 1-282-26260-2; 1-84920-721-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 216 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 401.9
• Soggetti: Psycholinguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 - Introduction; 2 - Language Structure and the Significance of Recursion; 3 - Semantics: The Concept of Meaning; 4 - Deixis: The Interface between Language and Social Interaction; 5 - Conversational Analysis and Accountability in Everyday Talk; 6 - Processes and Procedures in Conversational Interaction; 7 - Power Relations in Language; 8 - Sign-Systems and Social Semiotics; 9 - The Role of the Reader in Text Interpretation; 10 - Writing and the Construction of Narrative Text; 11 - Postmodem Psychology and Language: Discourse Analysis and Social Psychology; ReferencesIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Psychology of Language' examines both the formal/structural aspects of linguistics and psycholinguistics and the concerns of sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and social semiotics. Author Michael A. Forrester discusses three levels of communication: thinking - the cognitive processes of self-communication; talk - with an emphasis on everyday conversational behaviour; text - including the study of reading and writing. Within these areas, Forrester introduces a wide range of subjects, from language structure, semantics, and deixis to conversation, power relations in language, interpretation, and postmodern psychology.