This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative and timely review of language as social action. The book successfully weaves together research from philosophy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, pragmatics, and artificial intelligence. In this way, it clearly demonstrates how many aspects of social life are mediated by language and how understanding language use requires an understanding of its social dimension.
A four-level course designed for working adults who need English for work, travel, and socializing. This MultiROM which accompanies the Student's Book offers an interactive wordbank, reading texts from the Student's Book, dictation exercises, and practice activities for the Language focus and Focus on functions sections of the Student's Book.
A four-level course designed for working adults who need English for work, travel, and socializing. This MultiROM which accompanies the Student's Book offers an interactive wordbank, reading texts from the Student's Book, dictation exercises, and practice activities for the Language focus and Focus on functions sections of the Student's Book.
Translation/History/Culture is a collection of the most important statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries--power, poetics, language, education--it contains many texts previously unavailable in English.
From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much less formally oriented. Instead, functional and cognitive approaches to language structure are typically couched in terms already familiar to cognitive scientists: perception, attention, conceptualization, meaning, symbols, categories, schemas, perspectives, discourse context, social interaction, and communicative goals.
