Sociolinguistic interaction and identity construction
The view from game-theoretic pragmatics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3620006 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Burnett (0000-0002-7389-0679, CNRS‐Université de Paris Diderot France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 238-271 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/josl.12229 |
| OpenAlex | W2610231086 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 68 |
Understanding the dynamics that characterize interaction between conversational participants is a fundamental goal of most theories of socially conditioned language use and identity construction through language. In this paper, I outline a class of formal tools that, I suggest, can be helpful in making progress towards this goal. More precisely, this paper explores how Bayesian signalling game models can be used to formalize key aspects of current sociolinguistic theories, and, in doing so, contribute to our knowledge of how speakers use their linguistic resources to communicate information and carve out their place in the social world. The Bayesian framework has become increasingly popular for the analysis of pragmatic phenomena of many different types, and, more generally, these models have become a dominant paradigm for the explanation of non-linguistic cognitive processes. As such, I argue that this approach has the potential to yield a formalized theory of personal and social identity construction and to situate the study of sociolinguistic interaction within a broader theory of rationalistic cognition
Class (philosophy · Cognition · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
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Language games and their types
Bias in semantic and discourse interpretation
Slurring individuals
Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations
Social Meaning
Social stereotypes affect imprecision resolution across different tasks
Exhaustivity and Anti‐Exhaustivity in the RSA Framework
The Rational Speech Act Framework
Is Gender‐Inclusive Language Left‐Wing? The Social Meaning of Four Gender‐Inclusive Strategies in French and German
Look, Dude
Pragmatic alternatives and social meaning
Meaning change you can make
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Sociophonetics, semantics, and intention
Sociolinguistic Variation, Speech Acts, and Discursive Injustice
(Im)precise personae
Aesthetics in Styles and Variation
Social meaning in semantics and pragmatics
Social markers and dimensions of meaning
The Style Game
Deriving politeness from an extended Lewisian model
Linguistic prescription, ideological structure, and the actuation of linguistic changes
Context, precision, and social perception
Erving Goffman and modern sociology
Bayesian Rationality
Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
Reinforcement Learning
Is human cognition adaptive?
Accommodation theory
Iii.—on Referring
A model for recognition memory
The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English
The Logical Analysis of Plurals and Mass Terms
How to Grow a Mind
The Logic of Animal Conflict
Predicting Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Games
The algebra of events
Logic and Conversation
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Strategic Interaction
Encounters
Language and Social Identity
Electrospun radially oriented berberine-PHBV nanofiber dressing patches for accelerating diabetic wound healing
Syntactic Structures
The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
Language and Gender
Knowledge and Implicature
Language and Sexuality
The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution
Investigating the distribution of some (but not all) implicatures using corpora and web-based methods
Neg-raising and positive polarity
Probabilistic pragmatics, or why Bayes’ rule is probably important for pragmatics
Constraints on the social meaning of released /t
Constructing Social Identity
Attitudes toward male roles among adolescent males
Teaching & Learning Guide for Speech Variation, Utility, and Game Theory
Speech Variation, Utility, and Game Theory
Men’s Identities and Sociolinguistic Variation
Variation and the indexical field 1
Rhotacization and the ‘Beijing Smooth Operator
Three Waves of Variation Study
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Identity and interaction
A Natural history of negation
Evaluational reactions to spoken languages
All of the above
That straight talk
Categories, stereotypes, and the linguistic perception of sexuality
I'll be the judge of that
Language style as audience design
Calculating speakers
The economics of linguistic exchanges
Pragmatics
Discourse Strategies
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |