Negotiating Meaning-part 2: Language and Society

Scholars as diverse as Mary Douglas, (anthropology), Erving Goffman (social psychology) and George Lakoff (cognitive linguistics) have recognized the importance of negotiation in communication. Alan Fiske's claim that language is always an attempt to negotiate human relations as well as to refer to things and ideas forms part of a thread that runs from Jonathan Haidt's social intuitionism and George Lakoff's experiential realism through to Mary Douglas' grid-group and thought styles. This negotiation takes place at all individual<>social levels, and can be analyzed from any number of perspectives. This series overlaps with the series parts 1 and 3.

1. 1Introduction-language and societyEnglish
2. 2ContextEnglish
3. 3Language as a Window into Human NatureEnglish
4. 4What our language habits revealEnglish
5. 5How the brain makes meaningEnglish
6. 6MAP: What do babies know (and when do they know it?)English
7. 7langbrain - Language and Brain: Neurocognitive LinguisticsEnglish
8. 8Language and the brainEnglish
9. 9The Gricean ProgramEnglish
10. 10Speech Acts, An OverviewEnglish
11. 11Linguistic Diversity IS LanguageEnglish
12. 12Awesomely Alternate RandomnessesEnglish
13. 13Sociolinguistics: Degrees of FormalityEnglish
14. 14Exercises in negotiating meaningEnglish
15. 15Biblical exercises in negotiating meaningEnglish
16. 16"Think Biblically. About Everything."English
17. 17GenreEnglish
18. 18Thinking in picturesEnglish
19. 19Words and their oppositesEnglish
20. 20What do "glow," "glimmer" and "glory" have in common?English
21. 21Gender rules in Spanish and their exceptionsEnglish
22. 22Your Morals Depend on LanguageEnglish
23. 23Does sense affect the sounds of words?English
24. 24SlanguageEnglish
25. 25Human language may be shaped by climate and terrainEnglish
26. 26Is Black English a Dialect or a Language?English
27. 27Which Came First, the Language or its Grammar?English