Psycholinguistics Books

Book SynopsisThis book fulfils the need for a clear overview of this area of cognitive psychology which encompasses both language and thought. Focusing on goal directed thinking and decision making, Nick Lund looks at the relationship between our grasp of language and our problem solving abilities. Different positions on the issues are contextualised and discussed in a way suitable for the AQA-A A-Level syllabus. Supplementary detail means that the book will also be valuable to other A-Level specification candidates and undergraduates coming to this area for the first time.Trade Review"This clearly written text will help to explain and clarify a complex area of cognitive research that A Level students often find difficult. Its depth of understanding and a wide set of research examples means that the book will also appeal to first year undergraduates." - Jane Wilson, City College NorwichTable of ContentsPart 1. Introduction. Language and Thought. The Nature of Language. Methods of Studying Language. Problem Solving and Decision Making. The Study of Problem Solving and Decision Making. Summary. Part 2. The Relationship Between Language and Thought. Introduction. The Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis. Thought Determines Language. The Interdependence of Language and Thought. Summary. Review Exercise. Part 3. Social and Cultural Aspects of Language. Introduction. Social Class. Ethnic Background. Gender. Summary. Review Exercise. Part 4. Language Acquisition.Introduction. The Stages of Language Acquisition. Pre-linguistic. One-word Stage. Development of Grammar. Meaning and Pragmatics. Summary. Review Exercise. Part 5 Theories of language acquisition. Introduction. Environmental Theories of Language Acquisition. Nativist Theories of Language Acquisition. Summary. Review Exercise. Part 6. Problem-solving. Introduction. Types of Problems. Gestalt Approach. Information Processing Approach. Information Processing and 'Insight'. Use of Analogy in Problem Solving. Problem Solving in Everyday Life. Summary. Review Exercise. Part 7. Decision Making. Introduction. The Heuristics and Biases Approach to Judgements. Other Factors that Influence Judgements. Evaluation of the Heuristics and Biases Approach. Theories of Decision Making. Summary. Review Exercise. Part 8. Study Aids. Glossary. Solutions to Problems. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisA classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.Trade Review‘An excellent and very welcome guide to psycholinguistics…highly recommended.’ The Washington Post ‘The reader’s curiosity about the complexities of the mother tongue is kept right to the end.’ The Times Educational Supplement ‘This is an excellent text which would give the undergraduate student as fine an introduction to the field of psycholinguistics as is available today.’ Choice Table of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the first edition. Preface to the fifth edition. Introduction 1.The great automatic grammatizator 2.Animals that try to talk 3.Grandmama’s teeth 4.Predestinate grooves 5.A blueprint in the brain? 6.Chattering children 7.Puzzling it out 8.Celestial unintelligibility 9.The white elephant problem 10.The case of the missing fingerprint 11.The Cheshire Cat’s grin 12.Banker’s clerk or hippopotamus? Suggestions for further reading References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book critically analyses and reviews the development of language in direct relation to social disadvantage in the early years and beyond. Definitions and descriptions of social disadvantage are addressed and the wider aspects discussed.Trade Review"…a book for all teachers and parents." (The Guardian, December 2006) Table of ContentsList of contributors. Introduction. PART I. Chapter 1 Language and social disadvantage: the effects of socio-economic status on children’s language acquisition and use (Jane Ginsborg). Chapter 2 The interplay between language and cognition in typical and atypical development (Nicola Botting). Chapter 3 Literacy and numeracy (Ivy Doherty and Jenny Landells). Chapter 4 Childhood speech and language difficulties and later life chances (Judy Clegg). Chapter 5 Language and the development of social and emotional understanding (Marion Farmer). Chapter 6 Language, behaviour and social disadvantage (Helen Stringer and Judy Clegg). Chapter 7 Language and communication in young people with learning difficulties: stories of social disadvantage (Monica Bray). Chapter 8 The effects of intervention on the communication skills of socially disadvantaged children (James Law and Francis Harris). PART II: Research reports. Chapter 9 Interventions to promote language development in socially disadvantaged children – the devil may be in the detail (James Law). 9.1 Participation in Sure Start: lessons from language screening (Caroline Pickstone). 9.2 The ‘Teaching Children Talking’ project (Linda Hobbs). 9.3 The Talking Table (Marion Farmer and Fleur Griffiths). 9.4 Implementing effective oral language interventions in preschool settings: no simple solutions (Julie E. Dockrell, Morag Stuart and Diane King). 9.5 Working and learning together: an evaluation of a collaborative approach to intervention with student speech and language therapists and nursery staff (Jenny Leyden and Marcin Szczerbinkski). 9.6 Facilitating narrative and social skills in secondary school students with language and behaviour difficulties (Helen Stringer). 9.7 Enhancing language and communication in language impaired secondary school-aged children (Victoria Joffe). Afterword (Ann Locke). Index.

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Book SynopsisWhen originally published in 1993 the first edition of this book was widely acknowledged as a definitive text in the field. The New Handbook builds on this success to provide updated reviews of many of the important theoretical and practical areas in which progress has been achieved in the last decade.Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. List of Contributors. Prologue (W. Robinson). THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Language in Communication: Frames of Reference (W. Robinson). Communication Accommodation Theory (C. Shepard, et al.). Discrepancy Arousal Theory and Cognitive Valence Theory (L. Guerrero, et al.). Expectancy Theories (J. Burgoon & M. Burgoon). Discursive Social Psychology (J. Potter & D. Edwards). Storytelling: The Power of Narrative Communication and Interpretation (Sunwolf & L. Frey). Language Attitudes: Retrospect, Conspect, and Prospect (J. Bradac, et al.). FACE TO FACE: STRUCTURES AND GENERAL FUNCTIONS. Towards a Comprehensive Model of Non-Verbal Communication (M. Patterson). Miscommunication and Communication Failure (C. Berger). Conversation (B. Slugoski & D. Hilton). Facework (C. MacMartin, et al.). FACE TO FACE: SPECIAL FUNCTIONS. Arguing (M. Billig). Patronizing (M. Hummert & E. Ryan). Deceiving (J. Tornqvist, et al.). Accounting (R. Buttny & G. Morris). Negotiating (S. Wilson, et al.). Gossiping (N. Emler). SOCIAL RELATIONS. Politeness (T. Holtgraves). Power (S. Ng & S. Reid). Interpersonal Relations (E. Sahlstein & S. Duck). The Observation of Marital Interaction (N. Roberts & P. Noller). SOCIAL CATEGORIES. Multilingual Communication (I. Sachdev & R. Bourhis). A Layered Approach to Ethnicity, Language and Communication (M. Hecht, et al.). Towards a Social Theory of Gender (L. Coates & T. Johnson). Language, Ageing and Ageism (N. Coupland & J. Coupland). APPLIED SETTINGS. Second Language Mystery (R. Clement & R. Gardner). Communication, Relationships and Health (M. Fitzpatrick & A. Vangelisti). Language, Law and Power (W. O'Barr). Active Patients as Powerful Communicators (R. Street). Communication in Organizations: An Intergroup Perspective (J. Gardner, et al.). Language and the Media: An Emerging Field for Social Psychology (P. Lunt & S. Livingstone). Social Psychological Theories of Computer-Mediated Communication: Social Pain or Social Gain (R. Spears, et al.). Epilogue: Jennifer Fortman and Howard Giles. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a theory of social knowledge drawing on social representations and dialogicality. It argues that dialogicality, the capacity of the human mind to conceive, create and communicate about social realities in terms of the other, is the sine qua non of the human mind.Trade Review"There is much that I am willing to take from DSR and incorporate into my own research. I share Markova's concerns about our so-far insufficient understanding of the dynamics of social thinking and about the rather unhelpful theorizing grounded in the sharp distinction between the individual and the social. I also empathize with her aversion to monological discourses and join her in her call for conceptualization of human thinking and knowing in terms of communication and language." - Anna Sfard, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; 1. An epistemological problem for social psychology; 2. Thinking and antinomies; 3. Linguistic and dialogical antinomies; 4. Thinking through the mouth; 5. Social representations: old and new; 6. Dialogical triads and three-component processes; 7. Understanding themata and generating social representations; Conclusion: social representations and dialogicality.

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Book SynopsisHow do bilinguals experience emotions? Do they perceive and express emotions similarly or differently in their respective languages? Does the first language remain forever the language of the heart? What role do emotions play in second language learning and in language attrition? Why do some writers prefer to write in their second language? In this provocative book, Pavlenko challenges the monolingual bias of modern linguistics and psychology and uses the lens of bi- and multilingualism to offer a fresh perspective on the relationship between language and emotions. Bringing together insights from the fields of linguistics, neurolinguistics, psychology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and literary theory, Pavlenko offers a comprehensive introduction to this cross-disciplinary movement. This is a highly readable and thought-provoking book that draws on empirical data and first hand accounts and offers invaluable advice for novice researchers. It will appeal to scholars and researchers acrosTrade Review'Aneta Pavlenko's book is a welcome and enriching addition to the field of bilingualism and multilingualism, addressing the topic of the relationship between emotions and multilingualism. As a first attempt to bring together these two fields, this book must be applauded as an important addition to the study of multilingualism. … this book is well-written … an updated, interesting, and integrated account of the state of the art on the interface between affect and multilingualism … as is true of every good scholarly volume, her book raises more questions than it answers and should therefore be read by all scholars of multilingualism.' Journal of Cognitive Education and PsychologyTable of ContentsList of tables; Preface; 1. Languages and emotions: what can a multilingual perspective contribute?; 2. Emotions in the study of multilingualism: framing the questions; 3. Vocal level: is the lady angry?; 4. Semantic and conceptual levels: the bilingual mental lexicon; 5. Discursive level: I feel zhalko tebia bednogo; 6. Neurophysiological level: his coeur is where his feelings dwell; 7. Social cognition: I no longer wanted to speak German; 8. Emotions and multilingualism: an integrated perspective; Appendices; References; Author index; Subject index.

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Book SynopsisHow humans produce and understand language is clearly introduced in this textbook for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics. With a logical, flexible structure Introducing Psycholinguistics steps through the central topics of production and comprehension of language and the interaction between them.Trade Review'An engaging and impressively comprehensive view of psycholinguistics that will provide an excellent introduction for the novice reader, and inform the advanced reader as well. Lucid, balanced and thorough.' Shari R. Speer, Ohio State University'A clear and digestible introduction to the field of psycholinguistics which illustrates the major research findings and carefully explains their relevance for theories of language processing. Starting from scratch, the book guides us through the psychology of language with engaging experimental demonstrations, web resources, and practical exercises.' Nick Ellis, University of Michigan'An invaluable text for any student of psycholinguistics. Students will appreciate the concise chapter introductions and summaries, lists of key terms and online materials. Best of all, Introducing Psycholinguistics takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on evidence from classic and recent studies and placing it within current linguistic theory.' Diane Nelson, University of Leeds'I really enjoyed reading the book and I will definitely use it the next time I teach an introductory course in psycholinguistics.' Åsa Abelin, Moderna språkTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Planning utterances; 3. Finding words; 4. Building words; 5. Monitoring and repair; 6. The use of gesture; 7. Perception for language; 8. Spoken word recognition; 9. Visual word recognition; 10. Syntactic sentence processing; 11. Interpreting sentences; 12. Making connections; 13. Architecture of the language processing system.

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Book SynopsisHow humans produce and understand language is clearly introduced in this textbook for students with only a basic knowledge of linguistics. With a logical, flexible structure Introducing Psycholinguistics steps through the central topics of production and comprehension of language and the interaction between them. Students will gain an understanding of the processes and representations involved in language use, aided by a comprehensive glossary, concepts defined in the margins and online flashcards that allow students to check their understanding of all the key terms and concepts of the subject. Examples and exercises throughout each topic reinforce understanding and encourage students to consider what language users might carry around in their heads as part of their linguistic knowledge, and how this stored knowledge relates to the structures and rules proposed by theoretical linguistics. Students will gain hands-on experience of experimental methods, with online demonstrations of techTrade Review'An engaging and impressively comprehensive view of psycholinguistics that will provide an excellent introduction for the novice reader, and inform the advanced reader as well. Lucid, balanced and thorough.' Shari R. Speer, Ohio State University'A clear and digestible introduction to the field of psycholinguistics which illustrates the major research findings and carefully explains their relevance for theories of language processing. Starting from scratch, the book guides us through the psychology of language with engaging experimental demonstrations, web resources, and practical exercises.' Nick Ellis, University of Michigan'An invaluable text for any student of psycholinguistics. Students will appreciate the concise chapter introductions and summaries, lists of key terms and online materials. Best of all, Introducing Psycholinguistics takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on evidence from classic and recent studies and placing it within current linguistic theory.' Diane Nelson, University of Leeds'I really enjoyed reading the book and I will definitely use it the next time I teach an introductory course in psycholinguistics.' Åsa Abelin, Moderna språkTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Planning utterances; 3. Finding words; 4. Building words; 5. Monitoring and repair; 6. The use of gesture; 7. Perception for language; 8. Spoken word recognition; 9. Visual word recognition; 10. Syntactic sentence processing; 11. Interpreting sentences; 12. Making connections; 13. Architecture of the language processing system.

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Book SynopsisWe live our lives in conversation, building families, societies and civilisations. In over seven thousand languages across the world, the basic infrastructure by which we communicate remains the same. This is the first ever book-length linguistic introduction to conversation analysis (CA), the field that has done more than any other to illuminate the mechanics of interaction. Starting by locating CA by reference to a number of cognate disciplines investigating language in use, it provides an overview of the origins and methodology of CA. By using conversational data from a range of languages, it examines the basic apparatus of sequence organisation: turn-taking, preference, identity construction and repair. As the basis for these investigations, the book uses the twin analytic resources of action and sequence to throw new light on the origins and nature of language use.Trade Review'This exciting new book is authoritatively and engagingly written: the coverage of issues in conversation analysis and the organisation of conversation is first class.' Gareth Walker, Sheffield UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: why study conversation?; 2. Towards an understanding of action: origins and perspectives; 3. Why that, now?: position and composition in interaction; 4. Interaction in time: the centrality of turntaking; 5. The structure of sequences I: preference organisation; 6. The structure of sequences II: knowledge and authority in the construction of identity; 7. Halting progressivity: the organisation of repair; 8. Conclusion: discovering order.

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Book SynopsisUsing the sophisticated theoretical and methodological apparatus of Conversation Analysis, this book sheds light on what happens in psychotherapeutic sessions and how therapists can use conversation to achieve success. Will appeal to researchers and graduate students studying conversation analysis across the disciplines of psychology, sociology and linguistics.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This volume highlights the considerable insights that emerge as a result of using conversation analysis to better understand psychotherapeutic interaction. Through an examination of the practices and procedures within the 'talking cure', the contributors help initiate a dialogue between students of interaction and psychotherapy researchers. Their findings indicate that conversation analysis can highlight key aspects of the psychotherapeutic process which have hitherto remained somewhat opaque.' Mike Forrester, University of Kent, CanterburyReview of the hardback: '… an outstanding edited collection. In a modest volume it brings together cutting edge conversation analytic studies of psychotherapist–client interaction. … rigorous empirical work … breadth of psychoanalytic theory and practice … interesting insights into conversation analysis from an outsider's perspective. … The book provides fascinating insights into the ways various forms of therapy are accomplished using the structures that organize social interaction. This book is a must have for students and academics with interests in conversation analysis and/or psychotherapy. It will likely become the … most important point of reference for those interested in the moment-by-moment unfolding of psychotherapeutic interaction.' Journal of Language and Social PsychologyTable of ContentsForeword: filling the gaps Willam B. Stiles; 1. Analysing psychotherapy in practice Anssi Peräkylä, Charles Antaki, Sanna Vehviläinen and Ivan Leudar; 2. Formulations in psychotherapy Charles Antaki; 3. Clients' responses to therapists' re-interpretations Fabrizio Bercelli, Federico Rossano and Maurizio Viaro; 4. Lexical substitution as a therapeutic resource John Rae; 5. Resisting optimistic questions in narrative and solution-focused therapies Clare MacMartin; 6. Conversation analysis and psychoanalysis: interpretation, affect and intersubjectivity Anssi Peräkylä; 7. Identifying and managing resistance in psychoanalytic interaction Sanna Vehviläinen; 8. Person reference as a device for constructing experiences as typical in group therapy Mia Halonen; 9. Conversation of emotions: on turning play into psychoanalytic psychotherapy Ivan Leudar, Wes Sharrock, Shirley Truckle, Thomas Colombino, Jacqueline Hayes and Kevin Booth; 10. A psychotherapist's view of conversation analysis Ulrich Streeck; 11. A review of conversational practices of psychotherapy Sanna Vehviläinen, Anssi Peräkylä, Charles Antaki and Ivan Leudar.

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Book SynopsisMany researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). This book challenges this division between the body and culture by showing how human emotions are to a large extent 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.Trade Review'I deem Metaphor and Emotion to be a substantial work … I believe that any literary-linguistic scholar interested in cognition, emotion or metaphor will find this work hugely rewarding.' Language and Literature'Metaphor and Emotion contains much that is interesting, even intriguing … Though the book's emphasis is firmly on linguistic analysis, Metaphor and Emotion will also be rewarding and suggestive for philosophers, psychologists and anyone eager to look in more detail at the relative place of language, body and culture in the constitution of human emotions.' Philosophical Writings'… an informative, readable and at times entertaining overview of metaphor and culture.' The PsychologistTable of Contents1. Language and emotion concepts; 2. Metaphor of emotion; 3. Emotion metaphors: are they unique to the emotions?; 4. Events and emotions: the subcategorization of emotions; 5. The force of emotion; 6. Emotions and relationships; 7. Folk versus expert theories of emotion; 8. Universality in the conceptualization of emotion; 9. Cultural variation in the conceptualization of emotion; 10. Emotion language: a new synthesis.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and psychology. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in non-verbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.Trade Review"...There are 28 chapters distributed across the five general sections of the book...worthy of highlighting for its excellence or other noteworthiness...all 28 chapters have valuable points for consideration and will be of interest to psychologists who are interested in the topic of communication..." --Thomas F. Cloonan, PsycCRITIQUES [August 5, 2009, Vol. 54, Release 31, Article 6]"[Gibbs] has edited a fine, wide-ranging collection of articles on metaphor and thought...Each writer remains true to his or her discipline and fills out the picture of what is known about the crucial role of metaphor in human thought and culture...Recommended..." --S. Satris, Clemson University, CHOICETable of ContentsPart I. The Roots of Metaphor: 1. The neural theory of metaphor George Lakoff; 2. Philosophy's debt to metaphor Mark Johnson; 3. Rethinking metaphor Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner; 4. How metaphor creates categories - quickly! Sam Glucksberg; 5. A deflationary theory of metaphors Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson; Part II. Metaphor Understanding: 6. Metaphor as structure-mapping Dedre Gentner and Brian Bowdle; 7. How the mind computes the meaning of metaphors: a simulation based on LSA Walter Kintsch; 8. Is metaphor unique? Rachel Giora; 9. Metaphor, imagination, and simulation: psycholinguistic evidence Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Teenie Matlock; 10. Metaphor comprehension and the brain Seana Coulson; Part III. Metaphor in Language and Culture: 11. Metaphor and talk Lynne Cameron; 12. Metaphor and education Graham Low; 13. Metaphor in literature Elena Semino and Gerard Steen; 14. Metaphor from body and culture Ning Yu; 15. Metaphor, semantics, and context Josef Stern; 16. Corpus linguistics and metaphor Alice Deignan; 17. Metaphor and poetic figures Yeshayahu Shen; Part IV. Metaphor in Reasoning and Feeling: 18. Metaphor and artificial intelligence: why they matter to each other John Barnden; 19. Conceptual metaphors, human cognition, and the nature of mathematics Rafael Nunez; 20. What is the 'color' of law? Steven L. Winter; 21. Metaphor and emotion Zoltán Kövecses; 22. Putting it in context: metaphor and psychotherapy Linda M. McMullen; 23. Metaphor and psychoanalysis Antal F. Borbely; 24. Crossing the senses in metaphorical language Cristina Cacciari; Part V. Metaphor in Nonverbal Expression: 25. Metaphor and art John M. Kennedy; 26. Metaphor in pictures and multimodal representations Charles Forceville; 27. Metaphor, gesture, and thought Alan Cienki and Cornelia Mueller; 28. Metaphor and music Lawrence Zbikowski.

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Book Synopsis“Sparkles with insight.”—Daniel PinkOne of Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Books of 2023One of Next Big Idea Club’s 7 Books that Reveal the Wonders of Writing and LanguageThis revolutionary book goes beyond any recent book on language to dissect how language operates in our minds and how to harness its virtually limitless power. As Dr. Marian explains, while you may well think you speak only one language, in fact your mind accommodates multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetry, some are fluent in math. The human brain is built to use multiple languages, and using more languages opens doors to creativity, brain health, and cognitive control.   Every new language we speak shapes how we extract and interpret information. It alters what we remember, how we perceive ourselves and the world around us, how we feel, the insights we have, the decisions we make, and the actions we take. Language is an invaluable tool for organizing, processing, and structuring information, and thereby unleashing radical advancement.   Learning a new language has broad lifetime consequences, and Dr. Marian reviews research showing that it: ·        Enhances executive function—our ability to focus on the things that matter and ignore the things that don’t. ·        Results in higher scores on creative-thinking tasks. ·        Develops critical reasoning skills. ·        Delays Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia by four to six years. ·        Improves decisions made under emotional duress. ·        Changes what we see, pay attention to, and recall.

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Book SynopsisLuce Irigaray is one of the leading French feminist philosophers and psychoanalysts. The Irigaray Reader is a collection of her most important paeprs to date, ranging across feminism, philosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics. A number of them appear here for the first time in English.Trade Review"A magnificent sample of the best and the boldest of Irigaray's writings and the projects she calls for and calls forth. An excellent text for both introductory and advanced work on Irigaray." Choice "Essential reading for those who seek a genuine understanding of the breadth and radicalism of her oeuvre. " The Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Glossary.. Section I: The critique of Patriarchy. Introduction to Section I. 1. Equal or different. 2. The bodily encounter wit the mother. 3. Women-mothers, the silent substratum of the social order. 4. Volume without contours.. Section II: Psychoanalysis and language. Introduction to section II. 5. The poverty of psychoanalysis. 6. the limit of the transference. 7. The power of discourse and the subordination of the feminine. 8. Questions. 9. The three genres.. Section III: Ethics and subjectivity: towards the future. Introduction to Section III. 10. Sexual difference. 11. Questions to Emmanuel Levinas. 12. Women-amongst-themselves: creating a woman-woman sociality. 13. The necessity for sexuate rights. 14. How to define sexuate rights?. 15. He risks who risks life itself. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisBased on two years of sociolinguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in one school, supplemented by shorter periods of fieldwork in three other schools, this study focuses on the polarized social categories, the 'jocks' and the 'burnouts', that dominate social organization in all of these schools.Trade Review"This long-awaited volume demonstrates that Eckert is the sociolinguist. No other student of language and society comes close to Eckert in providing social explanations for linguistic behavior and no other study has probed so deeply the social motivation of sound change. Eckert's unique combination of ethnographic practice and sophisticated quantitative analyses will be the target to emulate for many decades to come." Bill Labov, University of Pennsylvania "Penelope Eckert's work provides a fine ethnographic account of the social organization and social practices of a varied set of Detroit adolescents. At the same time, she builds in a much-needed critique of current sociolinguistic work on the relationship between language variation and social constructs such as class and gender. The work as a whole is an excellent and readable synthesis, representing the current state of the art in sociolinguistics." Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan "Nobody combines the insights of ethnographic study and variation analysis more creatively than Eckert. She invariably connects systematic language variation with the complexities of social practice in a way that challenges our reified interpretations of sociolinguistic behavior." Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University "Eckert has provided us with an array of priceless information on the local social matrix in which change takes place. If we are not ready to answer every question that might be posed about linguistic change, the first step is to master the rich store of information and insight that she has given us, and to plan our future research with this in mind." Language in SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Introduction: Variation and Agency. Interpreting the Meaning of Variation. The Social Order of Belten High. Sociolinguistic Research in the School. The Vocalic Variables. Outline of Variation in Belten High. We Are What We Do. Friendships, Networks, and Communities of Practice. Style, Social Meaning, and Sound Change. References. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Provides an ethnographically rich account of sociolinguistic variation in an adolescent population. aeo Shows how local processes coincide with the global patterning of variation with class, gender and age. aeo Uncovers the nature of social meaning and the dynamics of influence in variation.Trade Review"This long-awaited volume demonstrates that Eckert is the sociolinguist. No other student of language and society comes close to Eckert in providing social explanations for linguistic behavior and no other study has probed so deeply the social motivation of sound change. Eckert's unique combination of ethnographic practice and sophisticated quantitative analyses will be the target to emulate for many decades to come." Bill Labov, University of Pennsylvania "Penelope Eckert's work provides a fine ethnographic account of the social organization and social practices of a varied set of Detroit adolescents. At the same time, she builds in a much-needed critique of current sociolinguistic work on the relationship between language variation and social constructs such as class and gender. The work as a whole is an excellent and readable synthesis, representing the current state of the art in sociolinguistics." Lesley Milroy, University of Michigan "Nobody combines the insights of ethnographic study and variation analysis more creatively than Eckert. She invariably connects systematic language variation with the complexities of social practice in a way that challenges our reified interpretations of sociolinguistic behavior." Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University "Eckert has provided us with an array of priceless information on the local social matrix in which change takes place. If we are not ready to answer every question that might be posed about linguistic change, the first step is to master the rich store of information and insight that she has given us, and to plan our future research with this in mind." Language in SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Introduction: Variation and Agency. Interpreting the Meaning of Variation. The Social Order of Belten High. Sociolinguistic Research in the School. The Vocalic Variables. Outline of Variation in Belten High. We Are What We Do. Friendships, Networks, and Communities of Practice. Style, Social Meaning, and Sound Change. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive introduction to the study of language contact and its outcomes, as well as the social and linguistic factors involved. The book examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.Trade Review“This is a highly engaging text that gives thorough coverage of all aspects of contact linguistics. The writing is clear and concise, and the book presents even complex issues in an entertaining and accessible style. Right from the beginning, Winford makes it clear that the field of study adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws on theoretical linguistics and theories of second language acquisition, and that these theories are intertwined with sociocultural factors.” (Language Documentation & Conservation) "The volume's extensive, linguistically detailed coverage will make this a stimulating textbook for upper level students with good prior grounding in linguistics." (Anthropological Linguistics) "Along with a comprehensive state-of-the-art presentation of the basic theories and notions in this field, Winford's book is an exciting opening to the sophisticated and intricate universe of languages rubbing shoulders throughout the world ... the book contains a wealth of scholarly material and experimental data which allows for broad perception of language contact." (Language Awareness) "This book is a very good new introduction to language contact, and a must read for all students in the area." (Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development)Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Field of Contact Linguistics:. The Subject Matter Of Contact Linguistics. History Of Research On Language Contact. The Field Of Contact Linguistics. Types Of Contact Situation. Overview Of Contact Situations And Their Outcomes. The Social Contexts Of Language Contact. 2. Language Maintenance and Lexical Borrowing:. Introduction. 'Casual' Contact And Lexical Borrowing. Contact In Settings Involving “Unequal” Bilingualism. Lexical Borrowing In Equal Bilingual Situations. Social Motivations For Lexical Borrowing. The Processes And Products Of Lexical Borrowing. The Integration Of Loanwords. Linguistic Constraints On Lexical Borrowing. Structural Consequences Of Lexical Borrowing. Summary. 3. Structural Diffusion in Situations of Language Maintenance:. Introduction. Is There Direct Borrowing Of Structural Features?. Factors Affecting Structural Convergence. Structural Convergence In Stable Bilingual Situations. Sprachbünde: Contact Across Contiguous Speech Communities. A Case Of Intimate Inter-Community Contact: Arnhem Land. Heavy To Extreme Structural Diffusion: Borrowing Or Substratum Influence?. The Social Contexts Of Structural Convergence. Linguistic Constraints On Structural Diffusion Into A Maintained Language. Constraints On Syntactic Diffusion. Summary. 4. Code Switching in its Social Contexts:. Introduction. Defining Code Switching. Social Motivations For Code Switching. Summary. 5. Code Switching: Linguistic Aspects:. Introduction. Structural Constraints On Code Switching. A Production-Based Model Of Code Switching. Constraints On Code Switching Within The MLF Model. Constraints On Multi-Word Switches (EL Islands). Further Issues. Summary. 6. Bilingual Mixed Languages:. Introduction. Definition And Classification. Media Lengua. Michif. Creations Associated With Language Shift. The Case Of Ma'a. The Strange Case Of Copper Island Aleut. Summary. 7. Second Language Acquisition and Language Shift:. A. An Overview Of Individual Second Language Acquistion:. Introduction. L1 Influence In SLA. Simplification In SLA. Internal Developments In L2 Systems. Developmental Stages In SLA. Strategies And Processes In SLA. Principles And Constraints On SLA. B. Group Second Language Acquisition Or Language Shift. Introduction. Irish English. “Indigenized” Englishes And Similar Contact Varieties. Issues In The Study Of Language Shift. Linguistic Constraints In Language Shift. Non-Structural Factors In Language Shift. Question Of Classification. C. First Language Attrition And Death. Introduction. External (Social) Factors In Language Death. The Linguistic Consequences Of L1 Attrition. Language Attrition In Relation To Other Contact Phenomena. Summary. 8. Pidgins and Pidginization:. Introduction: Definitions. Social Contexts Of Pidgin Formation. Russenorsk: A Brief Sketch. Structural Characteristics Of Pidgins. Pidgin Formation In Relation To Early SLA. Elaborated Or Extended Pidgins. Simplified Languages. Issues Of Classification Revisited. Summary. 9. Creole Formation:. Introduction. Defining Creoles. The Sociohistorical Background To Creole Formation. The Emergence Of “Intermediate” Creoles: Bajan. The Emergence Of Radical Creoles: Suriname. Some Aspects Of Creole Grammar. Theories Of Creole Formation. Radical Creole Formation As SLA. Mechanisms, Constraints And Principles In Creole Formation. Universal Principles And Creole Formation. Externally Motivated Change In Later Creole Development. Summary. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of contact linguistics. * Examines a wide range of language contact phenomena from both general linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives. * Offers an account of current approaches to all of the major types of contact-induced change.Trade Review"This textbook’s comprehensive survey of language-contact phenomena will greatly facilitate further research on language creation and language change. For instance, Winford's eclectic data samples and much in his discussion of language acquisition in Creole formation will help demystify Creole Exceptionalism – the age-old dogma that Creole languages are phylogenetically and typologically ‘abnormal’. It is thus that creolophones and creolists will be long indebted to Winford's immense scholarship." Michel DeGraff, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The volume's extensive, linguistically detailed coverage will make this a stimulating textbook for upper level students with good prior grounding in linguistics." Anthropological Linguistics "Along with a comprehensive state-of-the-art presentation of the basic theories and notions in this field, Winford's book is an exciting opening to the sophisticated and intricate universe of languages rubbing shoulders throughout the world ... the book contains a wealth of scholarly material and experimental data which allows for broad perception of language contact." Language Awareness "This book is a very good new introduction to language contact, and a must read for all students in the area." Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural DevelopmentTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Field of Contact Linguistics:. The Subject Matter Of Contact Linguistics. History Of Research On Language Contact. The Field Of Contact Linguistics. Types Of Contact Situation. Overview Of Contact Situations And Their Outcomes. The Social Contexts Of Language Contact. 2. Language Maintenance and Lexical Borrowing:. Introduction. 'Casual' Contact And Lexical Borrowing. Contact In Settings Involving “Unequal” Bilingualism. Lexical Borrowing In Equal Bilingual Situations. Social Motivations For Lexical Borrowing. The Processes And Products Of Lexical Borrowing. The Integration Of Loanwords. Linguistic Constraints On Lexical Borrowing. Structural Consequences Of Lexical Borrowing. Summary. 3. Structural Diffusion in Situations of Language Maintenance:. Introduction. Is There Direct Borrowing Of Structural Features?. Factors Affecting Structural Convergence. Structural Convergence In Stable Bilingual Situations. Sprachbünde: Contact Across Contiguous Speech Communities. A Case Of Intimate Inter-Community Contact: Arnhem Land. Heavy To Extreme Structural Diffusion: Borrowing Or Substratum Influence?. The Social Contexts Of Structural Convergence. Linguistic Constraints On Structural Diffusion Into A Maintained Language. Constraints On Syntactic Diffusion. Summary. 4. Code Switching in its Social Contexts:. Introduction. Defining Code Switching. Social Motivations For Code Switching. Summary. 5. Code Switching: Linguistic Aspects:. Introduction. Structural Constraints On Code Switching. A Production-Based Model Of Code Switching. Constraints On Code Switching Within The MLF Model. Constraints On Multi-Word Switches (EL Islands). Further Issues. Summary. 6. Bilingual Mixed Languages:. Introduction. Definition And Classification. Media Lengua. Michif. Creations Associated With Language Shift. The Case Of Ma'a. The Strange Case Of Copper Island Aleut. Summary. 7. Second Language Acquisition and Language Shift:. A. An Overview Of Individual Second Language Acquistion:. Introduction. L1 Influence In SLA. Simplification In SLA. Internal Developments In L2 Systems. Developmental Stages In SLA. Strategies And Processes In SLA. Principles And Constraints On SLA. B. Group Second Language Acquisition Or Language Shift. Introduction. Irish English. “Indigenized” Englishes And Similar Contact Varieties. Issues In The Study Of Language Shift. Linguistic Constraints In Language Shift. Non-Structural Factors In Language Shift. Question Of Classification. C. First Language Attrition And Death. Introduction. External (Social) Factors In Language Death. The Linguistic Consequences Of L1 Attrition. Language Attrition In Relation To Other Contact Phenomena. Summary. 8. Pidgins and Pidginization:. Introduction: Definitions. Social Contexts Of Pidgin Formation. Russenorsk: A Brief Sketch. Structural Characteristics Of Pidgins. Pidgin Formation In Relation To Early SLA. Elaborated Or Extended Pidgins. Simplified Languages. Issues Of Classification Revisited. Summary. 9. Creole Formation:. Introduction. Defining Creoles. The Sociohistorical Background To Creole Formation. The Emergence Of “Intermediate” Creoles: Bajan. The Emergence Of Radical Creoles: Suriname. Some Aspects Of Creole Grammar. Theories Of Creole Formation. Radical Creole Formation As SLA. Mechanisms, Constraints And Principles In Creole Formation. Universal Principles And Creole Formation. Externally Motivated Change In Later Creole Development. Summary. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Edited by well--known and influential researchers in the field * Takes an interactive, rather than nativist, approach * Looks forward to the future of research into language development * Can be used as a supplement or as a main text for language development courses.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii General Introduction 1 Part I Introduction to Speech Perception 13 1 Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants 19 Peter W. Jusczyk 2 Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life 26 Janet F. Werker and Renée N. Desjardins 3 Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys 34 Franck Ramus, Marc D. Hauser, Cory Miller, Dylan Morris, and Jacques Mehler 4 Infant Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition 42 R.L. Gómez and L.A. Gerken 5 Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year 49 Anne Fernald, John P Pinto, Daniel Swingley, Amy Weinberg, And Gerald W. Mcroberts Part II Introduction to Word Learning 57 6 Young Children’s Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals 62 Helen I. Shwe and Ellen M. Markman 7 Lexical Development in English und Italian 76 Maria Cristina Caselli, P. Casadio, and E. Bates 8 Perceiving Intentions and Learning Words in the Second Year of Life 111 Michael Tomasello 9 Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children 129 Lori Markson and Paul Bloom 10 On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon; Evidence from Acquisition 134 Elizabeth Bates and Judith C. Goodman Part III Introduction to Grammatical Development 163 11 The Item-Based Nature of Children’s Early Syntactic Development 169 Michael Tomasello 12 Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure 187 Nameera Akhtar 13 The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules 203 Klaus-Michael Köpcke 14 An Exploration into Children’s Use or Passives 227 Nancy Budwig 15 Acquisition of Complementation 248 Lois Bloom, Matthew Rispoli, Barbara Gartner. And Jeremie Hafitz 16 Form Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are? 267 Dan I. Slobin Part IV Brains, Genes, and Computation in Language Development 291 17 Connectionism and Language Acquisition 295 Jeffrey L. Elman 18 Neural Correlates of Early Language Learning 307 Barbara Clancy and Barbara Finlay 19 Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders 331 Annette Karmiloff-Smith Index 351

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Book SynopsisFocusing on cognitive science, this volume looks at what this science has accomplished and where it will be going in the 21st century. Beginning with an introduction that maps the narrative history of cognitive science as a whole, the book follows with 60 newly-commissioned essays.Table of ContentsList of Contributors and Website Notice. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Life of Cognitive Science:. William Bechtel (Washington University in St Louis), Adele Abrahamsen (Washington University in St Louis), and George Graham (University of Alabama at Birmingham). Part II: Areas of Study in Cognitive Science:. 1. Analogy: Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University). 2. Animal Cognition: Herbert L. Roitblat (University of Hawaii). 3. Attention: A.H.C. Van Der Heijden (Leiden University). 4. Brain Mapping: Jennifer Mundale (Hartwick College). 5. Cognitive Anthropology: Charles W. Nuckolls (Emory University). 6. Cognitive and Linguistic Development: Adele Abrahamsen (Washington University in St Louis). 7. Conceptual Change: Nancy J. Nersessian (Georgia Institute of Technology). 8. Conceptual Organization: Douglas Medin (Northwestern University) and Sandra R. Waxman (Northwestern University). 9. Consciousness: Owen Flanagan (Duke University). 10. Decision Making: J. Frank Yates (University of Michigan) and Paul A. Estin (University of Michigan). 11. Emotions: Paul E. Griffiths (Otago University). 12. Imagery and Spatial Representation: Rita E. Anderson (Memorial University of Newfoundland). 13. Language Evolution and Neuromechanisms: Terrence W. Deacon (Boston University). 14. Language Processing: Kathryn Bock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Susan M. Garnsey (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). 15. Linguistics Theory: D. Terence Langendoen (University of Arizona). 16. Machine Learning: Paul Thagard (University of Waterloo). 17. Memory: Henry L. Roediger III (Washington University in St Louis) and Lyn M. Goff (Washington University in St Louis). 18. Perception: Cees Van Leeuwen (University of Amsterdam). 19. Perception: Color: Austen Clark (University of Connecticut). 20. Problem Solving: Kevin Dunbar (McGill University). 21. Reasoning: Lance J. Rips (Northwestern University). 22. Social Cognition: Alan J. Lambert (Washington University in St Louis) and Alison L. Chasteen (Washington University in St Louis). 23. Unconscious Intelligence: Rhianon Allen (Long Island University) and Arthur S. Reber (City University of New York). 24. Understanding Texts: Art Graesser (University of Memphis) and Pam Tipping (University of Memphis). 25. Word Meaning: Barbara C. Malt (Lehigh University). Part III: Methodologies of Cognitive Science:. 26. Artificial Intelligence: Ron Sun (University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa). 27. Behavioral Experimentation: Alexander Pollatsek (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and Keith Rayner (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). 28. Cognitive Ethology: Marc Bekoff (University of Colorado). 29. Deficits and Pathologies: Christopher D. Frith (Institute of Neurology, London). 30. Ethnomethodology: Barry Saferstein (California State University). 31. Functional Analysis: Brian Macwhinney (Carnegie-Mellon University). 32. Neuroimaging: Randy L. Buckner (Washington University in St Louis) and Steven E. Petersen (Washington University Medical School). 33. Protocal Analysis: K. Anders Ericsson (Florida State University). 34. Single Neuron Electrophysiology: B. E. Stein (Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University), M.T. Wallace (Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University), and T.R. Stanford (Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University). 35. Structural Analysis: Robert Frank (John Hopkins University). Part IV: Stances in Cognitive Science:. 36. Case-based Reasoning: David B. Leake (Indiana University). 37. Cognitive Linguistics: Michael Tomasello (Emory University). 38. Connectionism, Artificial Life, and Dynamical Systems: Jeffrey L. Elman (University of California at San Diego). 39. Embodied, Situated, and Distributed Cognition: Andy Clark (Washington University in St Louis). 40. Mediated Action: James V. Wertsch (Washington University in St Louis). 41. Neurobiological Modeling: P. Read Montague (Baylor College of Medicine) and Peter Dayan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 42. Production Systems: Christian D. Schunn (Carnegie-Mellon University) and David Klahr (Carnegie-Mellon University). Part V: Controversies in Cognitive Science:. 43. The Binding Problem: Valerie Gray Hardcastle (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University). 44. Heuristics and Satisficing: Robert C. Richardson (University of Cincinnati). 45. Innate Knowledge: Barbara Landau (University of Delaware). 46. Innateness and Emergentism: Elizabeth Bates (University of California at San Diego), Jeffrey L. Elman (University of California at San Diego), Mark H. Johnson (MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London), Annette Karmiloff-Smith (MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London), Domenico Parisi (National Research Council, Rome), and Kim Plunkett (Oxford University). 47. Intentionality: Gilbert Harman (Princeton University). 48. Levels of Explanation and Cognition Architectures: Robert N. McCauley (Emory University). 49. Modularity: Irene Appelbaum (University of Mantana). 50. Representation and Computation: Robert S. Stufflebeam (University of Tulsa). 51. Representations: Dorrit Billman (Georgia Institute of Technology). 52. Rules: Terence Horgan (University of Memphis) and John Tienson (University of Memphis). 53. Stage Theories Refuted: Donald G. Mackay (University of California at Los Angeles). Part VI: Cognitive Science in the Real World:. 54. Education: John T. Bruer (James S. McDonnell Foundation, St Louis). 55. Ethics: Mark L. Johnson (University of Oregon). 56. Everyday Life Environments: Alex Kirlik (Georgia Institute of Technology). 57. Institutions and Economics: Douglass C. North (Washington University in St Louis). 58. Legal Reasoning: Edwina L. Rissland (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). 59. Mental Retardation: Norman W. Bray (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Kevin D. Reilly (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Lisa F. Huffman ((University of Alabama at Birmingham), Lisa A. Grupe (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Mark F. Villa (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Kathryn L. Fletcher (University of Miami) , and Vivek Anumolu (CompuWare, Inc., Milwaukee). 60. Science: William F. Brewer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Punyashloke Mishra (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Selective Biographies of Major Contributors to Cognitive Science: William Bechtel (Washington University in St Louis) and Tadeusz Zawidzki (Washington University in St Louis). Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph studies research conducted for the purpose of investigating the relationship between vocabulary recognition and morphological knowledge during the early and middle elementary school years. The findings suggest that lexical development can be characterized in terms of increasing morphological complexity, and as a child ages, the proportion of known complex words that the child figured out by analyzing their morphological structure increased.Table of ContentsAbstract v I. Introduction 1 II. Estimating Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge 8 III. Morphological Development 27 IV. Constructing a Basis for Estimating Vocabulary Knowledge 43 V. A Study of Vocabulary Development in Elementary School Children 57 VI. Distinguishing Potentially Knowable Words from Psychologically Basic Vocabulary 80 VII. Vocabulary Development and the Growth of Morphological Knowledge 118 Appendix: The 196 Words on Which Children were Tested, with Comments on their Morphological Classifications 153 References 157 Acknowledgements 166 Commentary On Anglin’s Analysis of Vocabulary Growth 167George A. Miller and Pamela C. Wakefield Reply Knowing Versus Learning Words 176Jeremy M. Anglin Contributors 187 Statement of Editorial Policy 188

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Book Synopsis* Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. * Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics.Trade Review“This outstanding and far-ranging compendium comprises 32 articles that trace the contours of the field of pragmatics… Overall, this is an invaluable, comprehensive, and accessible volume that covers the broad range of pragmatic study embedded in cognitive, social, and cultural aspects of language and communication. Highly recommended.” Choice “The Handbook of Pragmatics presents a stunning view of the range of research enterprises and programs of those who have taken linguistic pragmatics 'out of the wastebasket'. Larry Horn and Gregory Ward have demonstrated by their selections and groupings an uncanny understanding of the coherence of this field and their book will stand as a landmark in linguistics for a long time to come.” Ellen F. Prince, University of Pennsylvania "It takes erudition, vision, and good taste to compile a good handbook of any field, even more so in the notoriously unruly field of pragmatics. Larry Horn and Gregory Ward have all of these. The editors have gathered together an excellent array of contributors to give us a handbook that will prove eminently useful to scholars and students within and outside pragmatics. Readers will find in it a reliable guide to the main pragmatic questions of the last three decades, which is insightful, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible." Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University "It doesn't take much reading between the lines to see that this is a stunning collection of essays, written by a cadre of the field's best. Quality: superb. Quantity: vast. Relation: everything there is that's relevant to pragmatics. Manner: as clear as it gets!" Ivan A. Sag, Stanford University "All in all, the Handbook of Pragmatics represents a broad spectrum of interests ... The collection's value is enhanced by an excellent "Introduction" from the joint hands of the editors, Larry Horn and Gregory Ward ... The book has been superbly produced, and the articles read generally very well." Intercultural PragmaticsTable of ContentsList of Contributors viii Introduction xi I The Domain of Pragmatics 1 1. Implicature 3Laurence R. Horn 2. Presupposition 29Jay David Atlas 3. Speech Acts 53Jerrold Sadock 4. Reference 74Gregory Carlson 5. Deixis 97Stephen C. Levinson 6. Definiteness and Indefiniteness 122Barbara Abbott II Pragmatics and Discourse Structure 151 7. Information Structure and Non-canonical Syntax 153Gregory Ward and Betty Birner 8. Topic and Focus 175Jeanette K. Gundel and Thorstein Fretheim 9. Context in Dynamic Interpretation 197Craige Roberts 10. Discourse Markers 221Diane Blakemore 11. Discourse Coherence 241Andrew Kehler 12. The Pragmatics of Non-sentences 266Robert J. Stainton 13. Anaphora and the Pragmatics–Syntax Interface 288Yan Huang 14. Empathy and Direct Discourse Perspectives 315Susumu Kuno 15. The Pragmatics of Deferred Interpretation 344Geoffrey Nunberg 16. Pragmatics of Language Performance 365Herbert H. Clark 17. Constraints on Ellipsis and Event Reference 383Andrew Kehler and Gregory Ward III Pragmatics and its Interfaces 405 18. Some Interactions of Pragmatics and Grammar 407Georgia M. Green 19. Pragmatics and Argument Structure 427Adele E. Goldberg 20. Pragmatics and Semantics 442François Recanati 21. Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Language 463Kent Bach 22. Pragmatics and the Lexicon 488Reinhard Blutner 23. Pragmatics and Intonation 515Julia Hirschberg 24. Historical Pragmatics 538Elizabeth Closs Traugott 25. Pragmatics and Language Acquisition 562Eve V. Clark 26. Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics 578Daniel Jurafsky IV Pragmatics and Cognition 605 27. Relevance Theory 607Deirdre Wilson and Dan Sperber 28. Relevance Theory and the Saying/Implicating Distinction 633Robyn Carston 29. Pragmatics and Cognitive Linguistics 657Gilles Fauconnier 30. Pragmatic Aspects of Grammatical Constructions 675Paul Kay 31. The Pragmatics of Polarity 701Michael Israel 32. Abduction in Natural Language Understanding 724Jerry R. Hobbs Bibliography 742 Index 820

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Book SynopsisAnalytic philosophy was born from philosophic reflection on logic and mathematics. It has been at its strongest in these and related domains of reflection, domains that are friendly to definition and analytic clarity. From time to time, analytic philosophers, some very distinguished, have produced fine work on literature and the arts. But these areas remain underexplored in the analytic tradition. This volume is focused upon language that does not fit within the usual analytic paradigms. It''s highlights include two pieces of original poetry on philosophic subjects (by philosophers who are also published poets), and philosophic reflection on poetry, literature more generally, metaphor, and related subjects.Table of ContentsPoetry:. 1. Moore's Paradox: John Koethe. 2. The Freestone Wall and the Walled Garden: Emily Grosholz. Papers:. 1. Thought and Poetry: John Koethe. 2. What are Fictions For? Bernard Harrison. 3. Hermeneutic Fictionalism: Jason Stanley. 4. Go Figure: A Path Through Fictionalism: Stephen Yablo. 5. Seeking a Centaur, Adoring Adonis: Intensional Transitives and Empty Terms: Mark Richard. 6. Meaning and Uselessness: How to Think about Derogatory Words: Jennifer Hornsby. 7. Davidson on Metaphor: Marga Reimer. 8. Metaphor and What is Said: Anne Bezuidenhout. 9. Knowledge by Metaphor: Josef Stern. 10. An Expedition Abroad: Metaphor, Thought and Reporting: Emma Borg. 11. Speaking Loosely: Sentence Nonliterality: Kent Bach. 12. Literal/nonLiteral: Francois Recanati.

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Book SynopsisIt brings together science, history and great storytelling to paint a fascinating picture of viruses as a major actor, not just in human civilisation but also in the human body.

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Book SynopsisAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis.Trade ReviewAt once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery. * The Economist *Engrossing and poignant. -- Irina Dumitrescu * Times Literary Supplement *Engagingly describes the disorienting and sometimes shattering experience of feeling one’s native language atrophy as a new language takes hold…[A] beautifully written book…Sedivy elegantly captures why the language(s) we use are so dear to us and how they play a central role in our identities. If we believe multilingualism is valuable, then we must work to preserve language contexts while embracing linguistic diversity. -- Fernanda Ferreira * Science *As a child trying to fit in with her new surroundings, Sedivy quickly forgot much of her Czech…Relearning Czech as an adult offered redemption, and Sedivy’s book is in part an account of how through that act of learning she has found ways to bind disparate aspects of her identity…Beyond the striking anecdotes from her own biography, Sedivy’s book is at its best when she brings insights from psycholinguistics to the page. -- Gavin Francis * New York Review of Books *In this insightful and informative analysis, Julie Sedivy examines what happens to memory, dreams, and even the sense of self when you enter another language. It is a book which speaks to the condition of countless people who have changed language and culture in our globalized world. -- Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation: A Life in a New LanguageJulie Sedivy’s book is not just a study of what it means to cradle more than one language or more than one culture, perhaps even more than one identity—it is a profound elegy to memories that endure despite displacement and the many time zones that define our lives. -- André Aciman, author of Homo Irrealis: Essays[A] moving and deeply personal account…Sedivy also makes a case for saving endangered languages…The connection between language and memory is…beautifully rendered…An astute, thoughtful volume. * Publishers Weekly *With implications for communities and identities, Memory Speaks is an astute linguistic investigation, showing that language is something both in people and of them. * Foreword Reviews (starred review) *One of the finest books I have ever read about language: a wise and humane amalgam of poetry and scientific rigor, rooted in Julie Sedivy’s deeply-felt personal experience. Full of compassion and sharp-edged insights, Memory Speaks will touch all of us who care about the tongues we speak and about the countless tongues now falling into oblivion. -- Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened LanguagesAt last, a go-to book on bilingualism and why it matters. One part science and one part personal history, Sedivy’s book guides us through the eternal question of how we handle two or more languages. It leaves us monolinguals looking deprived rather than as the default. -- John H. McWhorter, author of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter—Then, Now, and ForeverBeautifully told. It is also packed with a tour of the science on bilingualism, in which [Sedivy] is an expert, as well as the controversial topic of how one’s native language influences thought. As if that were not enough for this fascinating book, she…illuminates what is lost when a language dies. * The Economist *Fascinating…In a panoramic vista of how we inhabit language and how it inhabits us, with openness and curiosity, Sedivy studies the process of losing one’s language and also provides several paths to reviving and reclaiming one’s lost self. -- Aqsa Ijaz * Dawn *A graceful blend of personal memoir with the author’s scholarly field of psycholinguistics, Memory Speaks offers generalist readers an opportunity to appreciate the marvelous complexity of human language—an ancient technology that our digital age’s most hyped AI, telematics and algorithms have yet to match. You don’t need to be an academic linguaphile—or even an everyday Wordle enthusiast—to reap rewards from this provocative book. -- Christine Wiesenthal * Alberta Views *

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Book SynopsisAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis.Trade ReviewAt once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery. * The Economist *Engrossing and poignant. -- Irina Dumitrescu * Times Literary Supplement *Engagingly describes the disorienting and sometimes shattering experience of feeling one’s native language atrophy as a new language takes hold…[A] beautifully written book…Sedivy elegantly captures why the language(s) we use are so dear to us and how they play a central role in our identities. If we believe multilingualism is valuable, then we must work to preserve language contexts while embracing linguistic diversity. -- Fernanda Ferreira * Science *As a child trying to fit in with her new surroundings, Sedivy quickly forgot much of her Czech…Relearning Czech as an adult offered redemption, and Sedivy’s book is in part an account of how through that act of learning she has found ways to bind disparate aspects of her identity…Beyond the striking anecdotes from her own biography, Sedivy’s book is at its best when she brings insights from psycholinguistics to the page. -- Gavin Francis * New York Review of Books *In this insightful and informative analysis, Julie Sedivy examines what happens to memory, dreams, and even the sense of self when you enter another language. It is a book which speaks to the condition of countless people who have changed language and culture in our globalized world. -- Eva Hoffman, author of Lost in Translation: A Life in a New LanguageJulie Sedivy’s book is not just a study of what it means to cradle more than one language or more than one culture, perhaps even more than one identity—it is a profound elegy to memories that endure despite displacement and the many time zones that define our lives. -- André Aciman, author of Homo Irrealis: Essays[A] moving and deeply personal account…Sedivy also makes a case for saving endangered languages…The connection between language and memory is…beautifully rendered…An astute, thoughtful volume. * Publishers Weekly *With implications for communities and identities, Memory Speaks is an astute linguistic investigation, showing that language is something both in people and of them. * Foreword Reviews (starred review) *One of the finest books I have ever read about language: a wise and humane amalgam of poetry and scientific rigor, rooted in Julie Sedivy’s deeply-felt personal experience. Full of compassion and sharp-edged insights, Memory Speaks will touch all of us who care about the tongues we speak and about the countless tongues now falling into oblivion. -- Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened LanguagesAt last, a go-to book on bilingualism and why it matters. One part science and one part personal history, Sedivy’s book guides us through the eternal question of how we handle two or more languages. It leaves us monolinguals looking deprived rather than as the default. -- John H. McWhorter, author of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter—Then, Now, and ForeverBeautifully told. It is also packed with a tour of the science on bilingualism, in which [Sedivy] is an expert, as well as the controversial topic of how one’s native language influences thought. As if that were not enough for this fascinating book, she…illuminates what is lost when a language dies. * The Economist *Fascinating…In a panoramic vista of how we inhabit language and how it inhabits us, with openness and curiosity, Sedivy studies the process of losing one’s language and also provides several paths to reviving and reclaiming one’s lost self. -- Aqsa Ijaz * Dawn *A graceful blend of personal memoir with the author’s scholarly field of psycholinguistics, Memory Speaks offers generalist readers an opportunity to appreciate the marvelous complexity of human language—an ancient technology that our digital age’s most hyped AI, telematics and algorithms have yet to match. You don’t need to be an academic linguaphile—or even an everyday Wordle enthusiast—to reap rewards from this provocative book. -- Christine Wiesenthal * Alberta Views *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Outstanding scientific merit . . . With Explain Me This, Goldberg once again leads the field of Construction Grammar into a new and exciting area of research, which is a remarkable achievement."---Martin Hilpert, Lamicus

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Book SynopsisPere Julia questions the recourse of contemporary linguists, psycholinguists, and philosophers to an idealized speaker-listener and maintains that there is no way to be sure of the organizing principles for linguistic data other than going to the sources of these data, i.e., speakers, listeners, and the circumstances under which they interact in acTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. xi*CHAPTER 1. Psycholinguistic Context, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2. Structuralist Background, pg. 19*CHAPTER 3. The Transformational-Generative Proposal, pg. 42*CHAPTER 4. Explanatory Models, pg. 65*CHAPTER 5. Subsequent Refinements, pg. 93*CHAPTER 6. Performance and Competence, pg. 110*CHAPTER 7. Mentalism in Linguistics, pg. 126*NOTES, pg. 143*REFERENCES, pg. 204*INDEX, pg. 219

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the psychology of language and its neural substrate and shows how linguistics could benefit by incorporating insights from research on language acquisition, language processing, neurolinguistics and other disciplines concerned with human linguistic abilities.Trade ReviewThis work is distinguished by meticulous presentation and brilliant thinking. Germanistik (Redaktion) A wonderful book and real rarity: a scholarly treatise on language that is also accessible for even beginning level students. I know of no book that does a better job of exploring and even celebrating the many unique aspects of language, while at the same time highlighting its many deep connections with other domains of the human cognition. -- Professor Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology This well-informed, comprehensive book takes a fresh look at long-standing issues within psycholinguistics. And it is so well-written that it often reads more like a novel than a textbook. -- Adele E. Goldberg, Professor of Linguistics, Princeton University This work is distinguished by meticulous presentation and brilliant thinking. A wonderful book and real rarity: a scholarly treatise on language that is also accessible for even beginning level students. I know of no book that does a better job of exploring and even celebrating the many unique aspects of language, while at the same time highlighting its many deep connections with other domains of the human cognition. This well-informed, comprehensive book takes a fresh look at long-standing issues within psycholinguistics. And it is so well-written that it often reads more like a novel than a textbook.Table of Contents1. Introduction; PART I: THE BASIC SPECIFICATIONS; 2. Language Processing: Speed and Flexibility; 3. Language Acquisition: Robustness; 4. Language in the Brain; 5. Language and Other Cognitive Processes; 6. Biological Underpinnings; PART II: THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LANGUAGE; 7. Words; 8. On Rules and Regularity; 9. Syntactic Constructions; 10. The Cognitive Enterprise; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe first textbook providing an integrated model of spoken languageTrade ReviewProfessors Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton have produced an excellent introductory guide to the field of contemporary theoretical and experimental phonetics. The book provides clear material and helpful guidance for students coming for the first time to the topic, but excellent concise synopses of sub-topics for scholars and researchers in related fields who need to know about such topics as allophones, coarticulation, gestural scores. The learning process is made explicit through definitional boxes, step-by-step tutorials and evaluations of theoretical issues and concepts. They have achieved their aim - 'a guide to the complexities of the field for learners and researchers - with enthusiasm, transparency and great expertise. I find it difficult not to recommend it to anyone requiring an entry level text or introduction to this fascinating and important field. -- Professor Chris Code, University of Exeter Speech Communication is a young and developing science, continually challenged by new discoveries in areas such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience and speech signal modelling. Students learning about Phonetics, Phonology or Speech Science for the first time may be surprised to discover that many of the basic concepts presented to them are still being debated. In A Guide to Speech Production and Perception, the authors encourage students can think about the issues themselves, to understand why different theories arose and how they have relevance today. -- Dr Mark Huckvale, University College London Professors Mark Tatham and Katherine Morton have produced an excellent introductory guide to the field of contemporary theoretical and experimental phonetics. The book provides clear material and helpful guidance for students coming for the first time to the topic, but excellent concise synopses of sub-topics for scholars and researchers in related fields who need to know about such topics as allophones, coarticulation, gestural scores. The learning process is made explicit through definitional boxes, step-by-step tutorials and evaluations of theoretical issues and concepts. They have achieved their aim - 'a guide to the complexities of the field for learners and researchers - with enthusiasm, transparency and great expertise. I find it difficult not to recommend it to anyone requiring an entry level text or introduction to this fascinating and important field. Speech Communication is a young and developing science, continually challenged by new discoveries in areas such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience and speech signal modelling. Students learning about Phonetics, Phonology or Speech Science for the first time may be surprised to discover that many of the basic concepts presented to them are still being debated. In A Guide to Speech Production and Perception, the authors encourage students can think about the issues themselves, to understand why different theories arose and how they have relevance today.Table of Contents1. What is speaking?; 2. Studying speaking; 3. The foundation research; 4. Contemporary model building; 5. Theoretical considerations; 6. Essential in describing speech; 7. Hearing and perception; 8. Theories of speech perception; 9. Applications; 10. Experimental work - non-acoustics; 11. Experimental work - acoustics

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Book SynopsisAnecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science.Trade ReviewHats off to Joseph Shipley. -- William Safire New York Times A dictionary as invaluable to the philologist as it is a wellspring of delight for any inquisitive person. Perihelion A word-loving browser's delight. Atlantic Monthly The title promises a discursive voyage, and Shipley is as good as his word. He's a scholarly, humorous, rambling fellow, and his 636-page itinerary is filled with the excitement of chance encounters with long-lost cousins in distant lands. Newsday Not since the late Frank H. Vizetelly has there been an etymologist of the stature and erudition of Joseph T. Shipley, whose 26 books on various aspects of the English language are not only illuminating but a joy to read. Now, with The Origins of English Words, Dr. Shipley has outdone himself. West Coast Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFrequent Word Forms and TransformationsNotes on UsageBibliographyList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Indo-European rootsIndex of English Words

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Book SynopsisThe mental representation of what one reads is called a situation model or a mental model. The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is already known. Though a number of theories and models have been proposed to describe this interaction, Tapiero proposes a new model that assumes a variety of storage areas to previous knowledge, and that the reader picks and chooses which of these models is most relevant to what is being read. These are called levels of coherence. Itâs a dynamic process as well, as the reader chooses and abandons the storage units of previous knowledge as he or she reads on. Situation Models and Levels of Coherence is of professional and scholarly interest to cognitive scientists who specialize in reading, knowledge representation, mental models, discourse analysis, and metaphor/symbol.Table of ContentsContents: Preface. W. Kintsch, Foreword. Part I:Text Comprehension: What Kind of Mental Representation Does the Reader Build? The Internal “Objects” of Situation Models. Theoretical and Empirical Evidence for Two Main Levels of Representation: Referential and Causal Coherence. Situation Models as Integrated Representations: What Kind of Model Does the Reader Build? Part II:What Cognitive Mechanisms Are Involved in the Elaboration of a Situation Model? Current Theories of Comprehension: The Main Processes Involved in Mental-Representation Building by the Reader. Current Theories of Text Comprehension: What About Coherence? Part III:Contribution of the Reader's Knowledge in the Establishment of Global Coherence. Establishing Global Coherence: The Account for the Reader's Naive Theories of Causality. The Reader's Mental Representation: Search for Coherence or Passive Resonance? Part IV:Contribution of the Reader's Knowledge and Multidimensional Aspect of Situation Models: Importance of Causality and Emotion. Causal Inferences in the Reading Comprehension Process. Emotion and Text Comprehension. Are Some Dimensions More Crucial Than Others? Toward a Definition of Comprehension.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1984. The reissue of this manual is timely for two reasons: The dramatic increase in the incidence of autism and the use of this program with children who have autism and their parents since 1984 by one of the authors (PRZ). This manual has been used successfully to produce spontaneous three-word sentences in the majority of children in the original Boston sample (i.e., those with normal information processing ability), in clinical cases seen subsequently at the Montreal Children''s Hospital until May 2002, and those treated at the Montreal Autism Centre currently. In all these cases, the manual has been used under the guidance of a professional who was skilled with these procedures, originally the three authors, two psychologists and a behavioral pediatrician/psychologist (RBK).Table of ContentsChapter 1 Overview; Chapter 2 The Nature of Noncompliant and Resistant Behavior; Chapter 3 Reversing Noncompliant Behaviors; Chapter 4 An Overview of the Language Teaching Sessions; Chapter 5 Teaching Single Words; Chapter 6 Teaching Two-Word Sentences; Chapter 7 Teaching Complex Sentences;

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Book SynopsisWhy did Joseph Conrad avoid using English, except when it came to the arduous task of writing fiction? And how do we account for his extensive borrowing from French writers? This psycholinguistic examination delves into the creative mind of Conrad.

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Book SynopsisBased on the idea that children are experts of their lives, this pioneering book suggests that children's active participation in applied linguistics research can open up exciting new possibilities. It is essential reading for researchers in second language education, as well as anyone who wants to conduct research involving children.Table of Contents1. Setting the scene; 2. From traditional to contemporary conceptions of childhood; 3. Voice, agency and participation; 4. Child-centredness and democratic school structures; 5. Children's roles and status in applied linguistics research; 6. Filling the gap: what kind of research is needed?; 7. Ethical issues and dilemmas; 8. Towards children's active engagement in applied linguistics research.

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Book SynopsisThis Element outlines how we perceive speech and explores what the auditory system needs to achieve to make this possible. It traces a path through the system and discusses the mechanisms that enable us to perceive speech as a coherent sequence of words. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisThis Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning. The computational experiments are important for testing the learnability, variability, and confirmability of Construction Grammar as a theory of language.

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Book SynopsisThis Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of constructions, while also offering an in-depth discussion of current research trends and open questions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Discovering idiomaticity: the case for constructions; 3. From sign-based to radical: 'Flavors' of Construction Grammar; 4. Connecting the dots: the construct-i-con; 5. Creativity, multimodality, individual differences: recent developments in Construction Grammar; 6. Conclusion and outlook.

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Book SynopsisThis Element suggests that many arguments are misunderstandings of generative phonology claims and that the phenomenon of incomplete neutralisation is consistent with the classic generative phonology view. New experimental data reports that incomplete neutralisation is an outcome of planning using abstract/discrete phonological knowledge.

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Book SynopsisThis Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisThis Element offers a review of advancements in willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) over the past twenty-five years. It begins with the origin of the concept of WTC in first language (L1) communication research and the seminal and novel conceptualizations of WTC in the L2 context. This Element then categorizes six key perspectives that have informed WTC research: social psychological, cultural, dynamic, ecological, multimodal, and digital. By analyzing representative studies, it elucidates insights gained from these perspectives. The Element then discusses key factors associated with WTC, including individual attributes, situational factors, and outcome factors. This is followed by an overview of and critical commentary on methodological approaches in WTC research. Implications for enhancing L2 learners'' WTC in in-class, out-of-class, and digital contexts are discussed. The Element concludes by proposing important venues for future WTC research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Book SynopsisAI can assist the linguist in doing research on the structure of language. This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame Semanticist.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Safety Instructions: Risks and Limitations of LLMs and Generative AI; 2. Constructions; 3. Using an AI to Help Study Constructions; 4. Limitations of LLMs for Constructional Analysis; 5. Cognitive Frames and FrameNet; 6. Prompt Engineering for Building FrameNet; 7. Final safety instructions: Risks and limitations revisited; 8. Imagining the Future of Copilots for Linguists.

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating book offers an up-to-date introduction to the psychology of language, exploring aspects of language processing that have previously not been given centre stage such as the role of body and brain, social aspects of language use, and mental models.The New Psychology of Language presents an overarching theoretical account called the Language User Framework for discussing a wide variety of core language activities. How do we understand speech in conversations? How do we read books? How do we convert our thoughts into bodily signals (speech, gestures, facial expressions) when we speak? What happens in the mind and brain when we have mastered two or more languages? All these aspects of language use are discussed at the level of words and sentences, as well as text and discourse. Language is considered as an embodied, embedded, incremental cognitive activity aiming at the construction and communication of rich and dynamic mental models. Discussion boxes hiTable of Contents1. Basic assumptions of a new psychology of language 2. Language and communication 3. The Language User Framework 4. Language research techniques 5. Recognizing spoken words 6. Recognizing printed and written words 7. Sentence processing 8. Meaning 9. Language production 10. Multilingualism 11. Conclusion and outlook

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating book offers an up-to-date introduction to the psychology of language, exploring aspects of language processing that have previously not been given centre stage such as the role of body and brain, social aspects of language use, and mental models.The New Psychology of Language presents an overarching theoretical account called the Language User Framework for discussing a wide variety of core language activities. How do we understand speech in conversations? How do we read books? How do we convert our thoughts into bodily signals (speech, gestures, facial expressions) when we speak? What happens in the mind and brain when we have mastered two or more languages? All these aspects of language use are discussed at the level of words and sentences, as well as text and discourse. Language is considered as an embodied, embedded, incremental cognitive activity aiming at the construction and communication of rich and dynamic mental models. Discussion boxes hiTable of Contents1. Basic assumptions of a new psychology of language 2. Language and communication 3. The Language User Framework 4. Language research techniques 5. Recognizing spoken words 6. Recognizing printed and written words 7. Sentence processing 8. Meaning 9. Language production 10. Multilingualism 11. Conclusion and outlook

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