Table Of Contentlanguage, discourse and
social psychology
Edited by
Ann Weatherall, Bernadette M. Watson and
Cindy Gallois
language, discourse and social psychology
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BILINGUALISM: A SOCIAL APPROACH
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PHONOLOGY IN CONTEXT
Ann Weatherall, Bernadette M. Watson and Cindy Gallois (editors)
LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
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language, discourse
and social psychology
edited by
ann weatherall
victoria university of wellington
bernadette m. watson
university of queensland
cindy gallois
university of queensland
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1. Discourse analysis––Social aspects. 2. Social psychology. I. Weatherall, Ann,
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contents
series preface vii
list of tables and figures ix
notes on contributors x
introduction
theoretical and methodological approaches
to language and discourse in social psychology 1
ann weatherall, cindy gallois and bernadette watson
part one: language, accommodation
and intercultural encounters
1. language, ethnicity and intergroup relations 15
richard y. bourhis, shaha el-geledi and itesh sachdev
2. three variations on the social psychology of bilinguality:
context effects in motivation, usage and identity 51
richard clément, kimberly a. noels and peter d. macintyre
part two: language and discourse in institutional talk
3. communication, health and ageing: promoting empowerment 81
marie y. savundranayagam,
ellen bouchard ryan and mary lee hummert
4. language, discourse, and communication about health and illness:
intergroup relations, role and emotional support 108
bernadette watson and cindy gallois
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5. accommodation and institutional talk:
communicative dimensions of police–civilian interactions 131
howard giles, christopher hajek, valerie barker, mei-chen lin,
yan bing zhang, mary lee hummert and michelle chernikoff anderson
6. discursive psychology: mind and reality in practice 160
jonathan potter and alexa hepburn
part three: gender and sexuality
7. gender and communication in context 185
tamar murachver and anna janssen
8. conversation analysis, gender and sexuality 206
sue wilkinson and celia kitzinger
part four: discourse, rhetoric and politics
9. contemporary racist discourse:
taboos against racism and racist accusations 233
martha augoustinos and danielle every
10. political language and persuasive communication 255
peter bull
11. false beliefs and unsound arguments promoted by authorities 276
w. peter robinson
appendix: transcription notation 299
index 302
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series preface
christopher n. candlin
This new Advances in Linguistics Series is part of an overall publishing
programme by Palgrave Macmillan aimed at producing collections
of original, commissioned articles under the invited editorship of
distinguished scholars.
The books in the Series are not intended as an overall guide to the
topic or to provide an exhaustive coverage of its various sub-fi elds.
Rather, they are carefully planned to offer the informed readership a
conspectus of perspectives on key themes, authored by major scholars
whose work is at the boundaries of current research. What we plan the
Series will do, then, is to focus on salience and infl uence, move fi elds
forward, and help to chart future research development.
The Series is designed for postgraduate and research students, including
advanced level undergraduates seeking to pursue research work in
Linguistics, or careers engaged with language and communication study
more generally, as well as for more experienced researchers and tutors
seeking an awareness of what is current and in prospect in adjacent
research fi elds to their own. We hope that the some of the intellectual
excitement posed by the challenges of Linguistics as a pluralistic
discipline will shine through the books!
Editors of books in the Series have been particularly asked to put
their own distinctive stamp on their collection, to give it a personal
dimension, and to map the territory, as it were, seen through the eyes
of their own research experience.
With its focus on the key domains of gender, ethnicity, inter-
generational communication, and public and political discourses,
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viii language, discourse and social psychology
Language, Discourse and Social Psychology edited by Ann Weatherall,
Bernadette M. Watson and Cindy Gallois provides a cutting-edge map
of an interdisciplinary territory now essential to the study of discourse
in social life. Through the voices of its distinguished international
contributors and the broad experience of its editors, it charts the
discursive turn in studies of human communication and brings to such
studies an essential combination of experimental rigour and social and
ethnographic understanding. In doing so, it defi nes for a wide audience
the underpinning theoretical principle and the empirical practice of
grounded and evidence-based analysis of the conditions of production
and reception of human communicative interaction.
Christopher N Candlin
Senior Research Professor
Department of Linguistics
Macquarie University, Sydney
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list of tables and figures
tables
3.1 Assertive communication 85
5.1 Questionnaire items 144
5.2 Means and standard deviations for all factors and
individual measures by culture 145
figures
1.1 State language policies as they relate to the Acculturation
Orientations of linguistic minority members and
dominant majority members 23
2.1 Schematic representation of the ‘pyramid’ model 60
2.2 Path analytic solution: majority Anglophones 67
2.3 Path analytic solution: Chinese students 68
2.4 Path analytic solution: the Fransaskois 69
5.1 Attitudes to police: Peoples Republic of China and USA 147
5.2 Attitudes to Taiwanese police 148
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