Sociocultural Situatedness

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019618-4
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 2, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 822 g

Reihe: Body, Language and Mind

The contributions contained in the second volume of the two-volume set introduce and elaborate upon the concept of sociocultural situatedness, understood broadly as the way in which minds and cognitive processes are shaped, both individually and collectively, by their interaction with socioculturally contextualized structures and practices; and, furthermore, how these structures interact, contextually, with language and can become embodied in it.

Drawing on theoretical concepts and analytical tools within the purview of cognitive linguistics and related fields, the volume explores the relationship between body, language and mind, focusing on the complex mutually reinforcing relationships holding between the sociocultural contextualisation of language and, inversely, the linguistic contextualisation of culure. Stated differently, the notion of sociocultural situatedness allows for language to be seen as a cultural activity and at the same time as a subtle mechanism for organizing culture and thought.

The volume offers a representative, multi- and interdisciplinary collection of new papers on sociocultural situatedness, bringing together for the first time a wide variety of perspectives and case studies directed explicitly to elucidating the analytical potential of this concept for cognitive linguists and other researchers working in allied fields such as AI, discourse studies and cognitive anthropology. The book brings together several core issues related to the notion of sociocultural situatedness, some of which have been addressed previously, although to a large degree sporadically and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives without fully exploring the possible analytical advantages of this concept as a tool for investigating the role of culturally entrenched schemata in cognition and language.

In short, this is the first comprehensive survey of sociocultural situatedness theory.

Zielgruppe

Researchers, Scholars and Students in Linguistics (especially Cognitive Linguistics), Discourse Studies, Cognitive Anthropology, Cognitive and Developmental Psychology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frank, Roslyn M.

Bernárdez, Enrique

Dirven, René

Ziemke, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Über Autor(innen)

Roslyn M. Frank, University of Iowa, USA; René Dirven, University of Duisburg, Germany; Tom Ziemke, University of Skövde, Sweden; Enrique Bernárdez, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.