Abstract
Language is the most important medium of human social interaction. Our use of language represents a crucial link between the collective, cultural, and cognitive individual domains in our everyday lives. Language as a system of communication is collectively created, maintained, and modified, yet it is our individual cognitive understanding of its symbols and the situations in which it is appropriate to use them that qualifies us as fully fledged members of a society. The role of language in symbolizing and abtracting our essentially situational interactive experiences has been well recognized at least since Mead (1934). The other side of this connection, the way that situational knowledge regulates language use, has only been investigated since the emergence of sociolinguistics as an independent field of study. The contributions in this volume bear witness to the considerable importance of this subject, and the advances made in our knowledge about situated language use in recent years.
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