Part 1 Social psychology perspectives and language: social cognition and communication, C. Douglas McCann and Tory Higgins; language and emotion, Ward M. Winton; language and social influence, Michael Burgoon; language and personality, Adrian Furnham. Part 2 Channels and their analysis: function and non-verbal behaviour in social interaction, Miles L. Patterson; the communicative functions of paralanguage and prosody, Richard L. Street Jr; the structure and organization of verbal and non-verbal behaviour - data for models of production, Joseph N. Cappella and Mark T. Palmer; social psychology and discourse, Teun A. van Dijk. Part 3 the language of the self-disclosure, Thomas Holtgraves; the many faces of facework, Karen Tracy; interpersonal accountings, Michael J. Cody and Margaret L. McLaughlin; language and deception, Howard S. Friedman and Joan S. Tucker; language and control, Sik Hung Ng. Part 4 language and social categories: bilinguality and multilinguality, Itesh Sachved and Richard Bourhis; ethnic identity, language and communication breakdowns, William B. Gudykunst and Stella Ting-Toomey; social class, social status and communicative behaviour, Beth Haslett; changing the complexion of gender in language research, Cheris Kramarae; language and communication in mental handicap, Ivan Markova. Part 5 Language in social relations: language attitude and impression formation, James J. Bradac; language in friendships, William W. Wilmot and Wesley N. Shellen; models of marital interaction, Mary Anne Fitzpatrick; language and later life, Nikolas Coupland and Justine Coupland. Section 6 Language used in applied contexts: language in education, John Edwards; social psychological perspectives on second language acquisition, Robert C. Gardner and Richard Clement; communication characteristics of provider-patient information exchange, Jacqueline J. Hinkley, Holly K. Craig and Lynda A. Anderson; language and law - an overview of 15 years of research, Brenda Danet ; language and television, J.M. Wober.
