Chapter published in:
Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual. Second edition
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 826–843

Language psychology

Article outline
  • 1.Overview
  • 2.History
  • 3.Language psychology, psycholinguistics and related perspectives
  • 4.Micro sociology: Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
  • 5.The macro in the micro: Discourse, conversational inference and linguistic indexicality
  • 6.Perception of mental states in (inter)action
    • 6.1Social cognition perspectives
    • 6.2Studying mentalizing processes in situ
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 03 October 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.lan11
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