Cognitive Structures, Speech, and Social Situations: Two Integrative Models  

Oleh:

Giles, Howard ; Hewstone, Miles

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 4 no. 2 (1982), page 187-219.
Fulltext: 04_02_Giles.pdf (1.52MB)

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At the outset, we overview briefly sociolinguistic research on contextual variation and speech as well as the social psychologies of intergroup relations and social situations. During the discussion, we warn of the dangers of employing solely static, objective taxonomies of social situations for understanding linguistic variation. We suggest that a social psychological approach focusing upon the mediating role of speakers' cognitive representations of situations would be a fruitful complementary perspective. To this end, we present theoretical models of how language acts (a) as a dependent variable of people's subjective construals of situations, and (b) as an independent variable creatively defining and redefining situations for those involved. As we view speech and situations as interdependent so too do we consider the aforementioned models as operating simultaneously in social interaction. We feel that our integrative approach may be important not only in promoting the development of an interdisciplinary model of language in its social context but also in attempting to arrive at models of codeshffting that transcend the present focus on taxonomy

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