This comprehensive study of the psychology of language explores how we speak, read, remember, learn and understand language. The author examines each of these aspects in detail.
This thorough revision and update of the popular second edition contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language: how we understand, produce, and store language.
Participants heard one of the sentences embedded in a story. Following the presentation of the sentence, participants' memory for the sentence was assessed either immediately, after 80 additional syllables of the story had been heard ...
The book also presents an informative and entertaining historical perspective, and illustrates the fact that insights gained into controversial problems in other fields and at other times can shed light on many of today's most contentious ...
Advanced textbook for students of psychology.
This volume enlists more than two dozen experts in the fields of linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurology, and cognitive psychology in providing a realistic picture of the psychological and linguistic foundations of language.
This comprehensive handbook brings together leading language analysis scholars to present foundational concepts and methods for investigating human thought, feeling, and behavior using language.
Inspired by the pioneering work of Dan Slobin, this volume discusses language learning from a crosslinguistic perspective, integrates language specific factors in narrative skill, covers the major theoretical issues, and explores the ...
This volume shows how the psychology and power of language can create realities.
Figure 8.5 Peirce's extend sign analysis advertising, comics and billboards) providing a detailed rationale for their account of signification processes as social practice. Peircean semiotics A second approach to the analysis of ...
Studying the psychology of language doesn't have to be confusing. In David Carroll's text, a topic that can sometimes seem bewildering to students is presented in a clear, interesting, and...