Psycholinguistics

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the causes and consequences of competition among language learners, with a particular focus on understa...

How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Thi...

If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, signed, understood, and misunderstood, in all its infini...

Written in a lively style, Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind applies a scientific approach to the study of various aspects of speech, using every...

This book draws together the scientific research on how we process and interpret emoji. Most books on the subject of emoji explain how we use emoji...

Drawing a line, and then another, and another. Go back from the lines to the movements they capture and see gestures in them: not spatial displacem...

The unspoken rules and unquestioned assumptions that make up corporate culture are so well hidden that, once we become insiders, we stop noticing t...

The unspoken rules and unquestioned assumptions that make up corporate culture are so well hidden that, once we become insiders, we stop noticing t...

Does darkness lead to happiness? Is there corn in the corner? These are questions that make - to some extent - semantically sense, but for research...

Speech recognition in adverse conditions has been a familiar area of research in computer science, engineering, and hearing sciences for several de...

Researchers have looked into the role of individual differences in second language learning and found that differences between learners in areas su...

The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semanti...

In the field of second language (L2) acquisition, the number of studies focusing on L2 pronunciation instruction and perceptual/production training...

Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Du...

Current debates on intercultural communication often align with critical approaches. However, in the fields of cultural linguistics and intercultur...

This volume explores how grammatical categories, as defined by theoretical linguistics, are effectively implemented in language education. Aiming t...

This volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. ...

This book explores Margaret Atwoods distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive...

Established in the early 1980s, Word Grammar is the first theory of grammar that was cast in the terms of cognitive linguistics. This book surveys ...

The Handbook of Translation and Cognition is a pioneering, state-of-the-art investigation of cognitive approaches to translation and interpreting s...

The Handbook of Translation and Cognition is a pioneering, state-of-the-art investigation of cognitive approaches to translation and interpreting s...