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language, discourse and social psychology Palgrave Advances in Linguistics Consulting Editor: Christopher N. Candlin, Macquarie University, Australia Titles include: Monica Heller (editor) BILINGUALISM: A SOCIAL APPROACH Martha E. Pennington (editor) PHONOLOGY IN CONTEXT Ann Weatherall, Bernadette M. Watson and Cindy Gallois (editors) LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Forthcoming: Noel Burton-Roberts (editor) PRAGMATICS Susan Foster-Cohen (editor) LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Palgrave Advances Series Standing Order ISBN 1–4039–3512–2 (Hardback) 1–4039–3513–0 (Paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in the case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England language, discourse and social psychology edited by ann weatherall victoria university of wellington bernadette m. watson university of queensland cindy gallois university of queensland Editorial matter and selection © Ann Weatherall, Bernadette M. Watson and Cindy Gallois 2007 Chapters © their authors 2007 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. 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Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Language discourse and social psychology / edited by Ann Weatherall, Bernadette M. Watson, Cindy Gallois. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Discourse analysis––Social aspects. 2. Social psychology. I. Weatherall, Ann, 1964– II. Watson, Bernadette M. III. Gallois, Cynthia. P302.84.L363 2007 401'.41––dc22 2006053003 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 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 vi language, discourse and social psychology 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 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, vii 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 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 ix
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