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Historically, the social aspects of language use have fallen in the domain of social psychology, while the underlying psycholinguistic mechanisms have been the purview of cognitive psychology. Recently, however, it has become increasingly clear that these two dimensions of language use are highly interrelated - cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and comprehension interact with social psychological factors, such as beliefs about one's interlocutors and politeness norms, and with the dynamics of the conversation itself, to produce shared meaning. This realization has led to a body of research integrating social and cognitive dimensions of language use which has greatly increased our understanding of human language use. This volume seeks to show that this cross-fertilization of theories and findings from social and cognitive psychology has proven extremely fruitful for understanding many aspects of human language use. Divided into four sections, the book illustrates this theme as it applies to such topics as: people's intentions or goals when using language; the role of language in research settings; indirect and figurative language; perspective-taking and conversational interaction; and the relationship between language and cognition. Influenced by fields other than psychology (ordinary language philosophy, conversation analysis and sociolinguistics), the research presented in this volume can be viewed as an effort to empirically test ideas and findings from other fields in an experimentally rigorous fashion.

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This solid contribution to research in the field will be appreciated not only by psycholinguists, but more generally by cognitive and social psychologists as well. -CHOICE ...this text is excellent reading. For scholars interested in interpersonal communication, this book should provide a gold mine of ideas for ways to integrate cognitive and social processes in their research, both methodologically and conceptually. -Applied Cognitive Psychology Traditionally, the study of the social dimensions of interpersonal communication has been separated from the study of the cognitive dimensions. Recent research efforts from both social and cognitive psychology, however, have made apparent the value of integrating both approaches for increasing our understanding of language use. The volume by Fussell and Kreuz is an excellent illustration of these efforts. -Studies in Second Language Acquisition ...the issues presented prove to be an interesting exploration into the fascinating domain of interpersonal communication and they are relevant enough to trigger debate among scholars....provides a stimulating perspective on how speaker and hearer take into account each other's perspective and how they are cognitively influenced by this perspective-taking. -TESL-EJ

"""This solid contribution to research in the field will be appreciated not only by psycholinguists, but more generally by cognitive and social psychologists as well."" —CHOICE ""...this text is excellent reading. For scholars interested in interpersonal communication, this book should provide a gold mine of ideas for ways to integrate cognitive and social processes in their research, both methodologically and conceptually."" —Applied Cognitive Psychology ""Traditionally, the study of the social dimensions of interpersonal communication has been separated from the study of the cognitive dimensions. Recent research efforts from both social and cognitive psychology, however, have made apparent the value of integrating both approaches for increasing our understanding of language use. The volume by Fussell and Kreuz is an excellent illustration of these efforts."" —Studies in Second Language Acquisition ""...the issues presented prove to be an interesting exploration into the fascinating domain of interpersonal communication and they are relevant enough to trigger debate among scholars....provides a stimulating perspective on how speaker and hearer take into account each other's perspective and how they are cognitively influenced by this perspective-taking."" —TESL-EJ"

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Susan R. Fussell, Roger J. Kreuz

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