Psycholinguistics

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are...

Context Counts assembles, for the first time, the work of pre-eminent linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff. A career that spans some forty years, Lakoff r...

This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Se...

Language ability is not only universal, but of vast potential, and related to numerous other cognitive and social functions. This book explores ind...

This book presents high-quality research of a theoretical and/or empirical/experimental nature, focusing on the interface between language and cogn...

This book discusses the neuroanatomical and the neurochemical bases of speech and language in the light of recent discoveries in the fields of cogn...

All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, ...

At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss,...

This book brings together a wide range of studies, practical applications and reflective accounts written by academics working at a university in J...

This book brings together a wide range of studies, practical applications and reflective accounts written by academics working at a university in J...

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing. I...

Telling and compelling Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book David Crystal, author of Ho...

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, ...

Learning and memory processes are basic features of human existence. They allow us to (un)consciously adapt to changes in our social and physical e...

This comprehensive, cutting-edge textbook offers a layered approach to the study of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It embraces multiple exc...

This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using exam...

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race. ...

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Ps...

This volume focuses on multimodality in various communicative settings, with special attention to how non-verbal elements reinforce and add meaning...

Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language....

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and J...

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and J...

This volume brings together linguistic, psychological and neurological research in a discussion of the Cognitive Dualism Hypothesis, whose central ...

How can humans keep thousands of words in mind and have no difficulty understanding trillions of sentences? The answer to this question might lie i...