1. Language and Social Situations: An Introductory Review. - The Background to the Study of Language and Situations. - The Psychological Tradition. - Cognitive Approaches. - The Sociological Tradition. - The Evidence for Links Between Language and Social Situations. - Summary and an Outline of the Volume. - I. Situational Factors in Language Development. - 2. The Role of Interaction Formats in Language Acquisition. - 3. Situational Variations Within Social Speech Registers. - II. Psychological Factors in Situated Language Use. - 4. Cognitive Situation Models in Discourse Production: The Expression of Ethnic Situations in Prejudiced Discourse. - 5. Speech and Situation: A General Model for the Process of Speech Production. - 6. Situational Conventions and Requests. - III. Social and Cultural Aspects of Language and Social Situations. - 7. The Language of Requesting in Israeli Society. - 8. In-Group/Out-Group Deixis: Situational Variation in the Verbs of Giving and Receiving in Japanese. - 9. Situational Influences on Perceptions of Accented Speech. - 10. Situational Rhetoric and Self-Presentation. - IV. Situational Influences on Communication Problems. - 11. A Situational Theory of Disqualification: Using Language to Leave the Field. - 12. Slips in Interaction: The Psychopathology of Everyday Discourse. - 13. Situational Variation in Speech Dysfluencies in Interpersonal Communication. - 14. Epilogue: On the Situational Nature of Language and Social Interaction. - Author Index. Language: English