Society and Discourse: How Social Contexts Influence Text and Talk

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
The importance of context......Page 13
The definition (delimitation) of \"context\"......Page 15
Mental models......Page 17
Context models......Page 18
An example: Tony Blair\'s Iraq speech in the UK parliament......Page 22
Context in systemic-functional linguistics......Page 24
Pragmatics......Page 25
Knowledge and context......Page 28
Sociolinguistics and social discourse analysis......Page 29
Style, register and genre......Page 31
Contextual analysis......Page 32
Social situations and social beliefs......Page 34
Context and society......Page 36
Context and culture......Page 38
Context and politics: the Iraq debate in the UK parliament......Page 39
Introduction: social psychological dimensions of context......Page 41
Social situations......Page 46
Environment......Page 52
Goals......Page 53
Motivations and decision making......Page 54
Location: space and place......Page 57
Personal and interpersonal space and place......Page 59
Social places......Page 60
Geographical places......Page 63
Attitudes, opinions and feelings about places......Page 65
The structures of places......Page 66
Other aspects of the environment......Page 68
Time......Page 72
Circumstances......Page 75
Concluding remark on Settings......Page 76
Social actors......Page 77
Person perception and social categorization......Page 79
Social identity......Page 82
Social Self......Page 85
Communicative roles: speakers......Page 86
Other communicative roles......Page 87
Managing social identities......Page 88
Relations between participants......Page 89
Action and interaction......Page 91
Social cognition......Page 92
Conclusions......Page 95
Introduction......Page 98
The \"social situation\" in sociology......Page 100
Max Weber......Page 101
Other classical sociologists on actions and situations......Page 102
Alfred Schutz......Page 104
Erving Goffman......Page 105
The \"social situation\" in contemporary sociology......Page 106
Situations of everyday life......Page 108
Social episodes as basic units of the social order......Page 109
Harold Garfinkel and ethnomethodology......Page 111
Conversation analysis......Page 114
The CDA approach to discourse and social structure......Page 122
The interactional approach to context......Page 125
Macro- and micro-contexts......Page 128
Agency and structure: Giddens......Page 130
Levels of context......Page 132
Group minds?......Page 134
Structures of social situations......Page 136
Place......Page 138
Time......Page 140
Social actors, roles and identities......Page 141
Communication participants......Page 142
Societal roles......Page 147
Social relations: power and dissent......Page 151
Other properties of participants......Page 152
Groups, networks, communities and other human collectivities......Page 154
Interaction......Page 157
Formulations......Page 159
Social beliefs......Page 160
The problem of media: text or context?......Page 162
Context models in discourse and interaction......Page 163
Final remarks......Page 164
Introduction......Page 166
Culture?......Page 168
First definitions of context in anthropology......Page 170
Context......Page 174
Context categories......Page 176
Context categories in some classical studies......Page 178
Participation structure......Page 184
Setting: space/place and time......Page 186
New directions in the ethnography of context......Page 187
The current state in linguistic anthropology......Page 188
Contexts of talk - not of text - and from a US perspective......Page 192
Defining context......Page 193
The relation between context and talk......Page 194
Figure and ground......Page 195
Precursors......Page 196
Antimentalism......Page 198
Other precursors......Page 199
Other contributions......Page 202
William Hanks......Page 206
Racist discourse and context......Page 213
The role of discourse in the reproduction of racism......Page 214
The role of the elites......Page 216
Concluding remarks......Page 223
Context and political identity......Page 225
Other interventions in the Iraq debate in the UK House of Commons......Page 231
The speech by John Randall......Page 250
Concluding remarks......Page 257
6 Conclusions......Page 260
Open problems and future research......Page 266
References......Page 268
Subject index......Page 290
Author index......Page 295