ABSTRACT
More and more social psychologists are recognizing just how important language and communication are in people’s social lives and inner worlds. The papers in this volume represent a major step in codifying the state of the art of social psychology’s approaches to language and communication, and a collective recognition of language’s subtleties and complexities, its automatic and sometimes irresistible influences, and its power as an indicator of people’s emotional and social lives. The collection merits serious attention, and ought to pave the way for yet more nuanced attention to the linguistic and communicative settings in which so much of life in the social world occurs.
