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Language as Social Action: Social Phychology and Language Use by Thomas M. Holtgraves is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Language as Social Action: Social Phychology and Language Use about?
Mahwah, New Jersey, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. — 232 p. — ISBN: 0805831401. 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. Topics covered include: speech act theory and indirect speech acts; politeness and the interpersonal determinants of language; language and impression management and person perception; conversational structure, perspective taking; and language and social thought.
Who reads Language as Social Action: Social Phychology and Language Use?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Thomas M. Holtgraves
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781410601773
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Sociology, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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