The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

Edited by Thomas M. Holtgraves

Oxford Library of Psychology

Focuses on the social underpinnings of language.
Considers the impact of language on social interaction through new communication technologies.
Considers the implications of language for a host of traditional social psychological topics, from attribution to stereotyping.

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

Edited by Thomas M. Holtgraves

Description

Language pervades everything we do as social beings. It is, in fact, difficult to disentangle language from social life, and hence its importance is often missed. The emergence of new communication technologies makes this even more striking. People come to "know" one another through these interactions without ever having met face-to-face. How? Through the words they use and the way they use them.

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology is a unique and innovative compilation of research that lies at the intersection of language and social psychology. Language is viewed as a social activity, and to understand this complex human activity requires a consideration of its social psychological underpinnings. Moreover, as a social activity, the use and in fact the existence of language has implications for a host of traditional social psychological processes. Hence, there is a reciprocal relationship between language and social psychology, and it is this reciprocal relationship that defines the essence of this handbook.

The handbook is divided into six sections. The first two sections focus on the social underpinnings of language, that is, the social coordination required to use language, as well as the manner in which language and broad social dimensions such as culture mutually constitute one another. The next two sections consider the implications of language for a host of traditional social psychological topics, including both intraindividual (e.g., attribution) and interindividual (e.g., intergroup relations) processes. The fifth section examines the role of language in the creation of meaning, and the final section includes chapters documenting the importance of the language-social psychology interface for a number of applied areas.

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

Edited by Thomas M. Holtgraves

Oxford Library of Psychology

Language and Social Psychology: Introduction and Overview

Part I. Social Dimensions of Language Variation: Social Causes and Consequences of Language Variability

Chapter 1. Language Attitudes: Social Determinants and Consequences of Language Variation.
Howard Giles and Tamara Raki

Chapter 2. Language, Identity, and Culture: Multiple Identity-Based Perspectives
Stella Ting-Toomey and Tenzin Dorjee

Chapter 3. Language and Culture
Yoshihisa Kashima, Emiko Kashima, Evan Kidd

Chapter 4. Gender Similarities and Differences in Language
Campbell Leaper

Part II. Social Processes Involved in Language-Based Interactions

Chapter 5. Working Together
Herbert H. Clark and Tania Henetz

Chapter 6. Perspective Taking and its Impostors in Language Use: Four Patterns of Deception
Dale Barr

Chapter 7. Hand Gestures and Facial Displays in Conversational Interaction
Janet Bavelas, Jennifer Gerwing, and Sara Healing

Chapter 8. Interactive Alignment and Language Use
Martin Pickering and Simon Garrod

Chapter 9. Cognitive and Social Aspects of Coherence
Rachel Giora

Part III. Linguistic Underpinnings of Interpersonal Processes

Chapter 10. Shaping Intergroup Relations through Language
Anne Maass, Luciano Arcuri, and Caterina Suitner

Chapter 11. Language and Persuasion
James Dillard

Chapter 12. Language and Interpersonal Relationships
Steve Duck and Daniel A. Usera

Chapter 13. Natural Language Use as a Marker of Personality
Molly E. Ireland and Matthias R. Mehl

Chapter 14. Using Computerized Text Analysis to Track Social Processes
Cindy K. Chung and James W. Pennebaker

Part IV. Linguistic Underpinnings of Intrapersonal Processes

Chapter 15. Language and Social Comprehension
Robert S. Wyer, Jr.

Chapter 16. Language and Attribution: Implicit Causal and Dispositional Information Contained in Words
Klaus Fiedler & Tobias Krüger

Chapter 17. Me and My Stories
M. Pasupathi, C. D. Mansfield, T. L. Weeks

Chapter 18. The Role of Language on the Perception and Experience of Emotion
Jennifer M.B. Fugate and Lisa Feldman Barrett

Chapter 19. Discursive Social Psychology
Alexandra Kent and Jonathan Potter

Part V. Language and Meaning

Chapter 20. Grounding Language in Our Bodies and the World
Michael P. Kaschak and John L. Jones

Chapter 21. Literal vs. Nonliteral Language - Novelty Matters
Rachel Giora

Chapter 22. Intentions in Meaningful Experiences of Language
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Chapter 23. Electrophysiological Research on Conversation and Discourse Processing
John C. J. Hoeks and Harm Brouwer

Chapter 24. Politeness and Reasoning: Face, Connectives, and Quantifiers
Jean-Francois Bonnefon

Part VI. Applied Topics

Chapter 25. Language Variation in the Classroom
John Edwards

Chapter 26. Pragmatic Processes in Survey Interviewing
Frederick G. Conrad, Michael F. Schober, & Norbert Schwarz

Chapter 27. Language and the Law: Illustrations from Cases of Disputed Sexual Consent
Deborah Davis and J. Guillermo Villalobos

Chapter 28. The Role of Language in Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Paul J. Taylor

Chapter 29. Computer-Mediated Communication
Susan Fussell & Leslie D. Setlock

Chapter 30. The Role of Natural Language and Discourse Processing in Advanced Tutoring Systems
Arthur C. Graesser, Fazel Keshtkar, and Haiying Li

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

Edited by Thomas M. Holtgraves

Oxford Library of Psychology

Author Information

Thomas Holtgraves is a professor of Psychological Science at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He has conducted interdisciplinary research, supported by the NSF and NIH, into multiple facets of language and social psychology.

Contributors:

Thomas Holtgraves
Psychological Science
Ball State University
Muncie, IN

Howard Giles
Dept. of Communication
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

Tamara Raki?
Department of Psychology
Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom

Stella Ting-Toomey
Department of Human Communications Studies
California State University - Fullerton
Fullerton, CA

Tenzin Dorjee
Department of Human Communications Studies
California State University - Fullerton
Fullerton, CA

Yoshihisa Kashima
Dept. of Psychology
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Emiko Kashima
School of Psychological Science
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia

Evan Kidd
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
Australian National University
Acton, Australia

Campbell Leaper
Department of Psychology
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

Herbert H. Clark
Dept. of Psychology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Tania Henetz
Dept. of Psychology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Dale Barr
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland

Janet Bavelas
Department of Psychology
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia

Jennifer Gerwing
Department of Psychology
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia

Sara Healing
Department of Psychology
University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia

Martin Pickering
Department of Psychology
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland

Simon Garrod
Department of Psychology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland

Anne Maass
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione
Universita' di Padova
Padova, Italy

Luciano Arcuri
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione
Universita' di Padova
Padova, Italy

Caterina Suitner
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione
Universita' di Padova
Padova, Italy

James Dillard
Department of Communication and Arts and Sciences
Pennsylvania University
University Park, PA

Steven W. Duck
Department of Communication Studies
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

Daniel A. Usera
Department of Communication Studies
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

Molly E. Ireland
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Matthias Mehl
Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Cindy K. Chung
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

James W. Pennebaker
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Robert S. Wyer
Deptartment of Marketing
HKUST Business School
Hong Kong

Klaus Fiedler
Social Psychology Department
Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Tobias Krüger
Social Psychology Department
Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Monisha Pasupathi
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

C.D. Mansfield
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

T.L. Weeks
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

Jennifer M. B. Fugate
Department of Psychology
University of Massachusetts

Lisa Feldman Barrett
Department of Psychology
Northeastern University
253 Nightingale Hall
Boston, MA

Alexandra Kent
School of Psychology
Keele University
Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Jonathan Potter
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Dr. Michael Kaschak
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL

John L. Jones
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL

Professor Rachel Giora
Department of Linguistics
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Department of Psychology
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

John C. J. Hoeks
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands

Harm Brouwer
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
University of Groningen
Groningen, The Netherlands

Jean-Francois Bonnefon
Department of Psychology
University of Toulouse-II
Toulouse, France

John Edwards
Department of Psychology
St Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Norbert Schwarz
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Frederick G. Conrad
Survey Research Center
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Michael F. Schober
Department of Psychology
New School for Social Research
New York, NY

Deborah Davis
Department of Psychology
University of Nevada at Reno
Reno, NV

J. Guillermo Villalobos
Department of Psychology
University of Nevada at Reno
Reno, NV

Paul Taylor
Department of Psychology
Lancaster University
Lancaster, United Kingdom

Susan R. Fussell
Department of Communication
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Leslie D. Setlock
Department of Communication
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Arthur C. Graesser
Department of Psychology
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN

Fazel Keshtkar
Department of Computer Science
Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, MO

Haiying Li
Department of Psychology
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

Edited by Thomas M. Holtgraves

Oxford Library of Psychology

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"The chapters [of The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology] are organized fairly uniformly and there are a few tables/figures to help clarify the text. Written by international experts in the field, this book will be of great benefit to researchers and social psychologists." --Gary B Kaniuk, Doody's Health Science Book Review

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

Edited by Thomas M. Holtgraves

Oxford Library of Psychology

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