Books for Psycholinguistics Arena The latest books for Psycholinguistics Arena http://www.psycholinguisticsarena.com en Copyright (C) Psycholinguistics Arena 2012 webmaster@psypress.com (Paul Watson) webmaster@psypress.com (Paul Watson) 720 <![CDATA[Perspectives on Agrammatism]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:00:00 -0400
  • Edited by Roelien Bastiaanse, and Cynthia K. Thompson.

    • Agrammatic aphasia (agrammatism), resulting from brain damage to regions of the brain involved in language processing, affects grammatical aspects of language. Therefore, research examining language breakdown (and recovery) patterns in agrammatism is of great interest and importance to linguists,…

    ISBN: 9781848720558

    Published Apr 04, 2012 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Valérie Gyselinck, and Francesca Pazzaglia.

    • The nature of mental images and their relation to language has caused controversy amongst psychologists for years, and the so-called "imagery debate" is still unresolved. Fresh light is now being shed on this topic using recent findings in neuroscience and the development of behavioural studies.…

    ISBN: 9781848720497

    Published Apr 01, 2012 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Gun R. Semin.

    • This volume covers key readings that have inspired and advanced a social psychological understanding of the intricate relationships between language, thinking, and communication. These readings also trace the way in which our understanding of this relationship has changed over time and provide an…

    ISBN: 9780863775864

    Published Mar 30, 2012 by Psychology Press

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  • By H.D. Adamson.

    • In this book H.D. Adamson reviews scholarship in sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, comparing theories of variation in first and second-language speech, with special attention to the psychological underpinnings of variation theory. Interlanguage is what second language learners speak…

    ISBN: 9780415538862

    Published Mar 28, 2012 by Routledge

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  • Edited by Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin and Sara Markese.

    • The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001. The project focuses on the families of women who were…

    ISBN: 9780415507790

    Published Feb 23, 2012 by Routledge

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  • By Sarah Benesch.

    • Groundbreaking in the ways it makes new connections among emotion, critical theory, and pedagogy, this book explores the role of students’ and teachers’ emotions in college instruction, illuminating key literacy and identity issues faced by immigrant students learning English in postsecondary…

    ISBN: 9780415882040

    Published Feb 16, 2012 by Routledge

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  • Edited by Michel Fayol, M. Denis Alamargot and Virginia Berninger.

    • Translation of cognitive representations into written language is one of the most important processes in writing. This volume provides a long-awaited updated overview of the field. The contributors discuss each of the commonly used research methods for studying translation; theorize about the…

    ISBN: 9781848729209

    Published Feb 08, 2012 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Elena L. Grigorenko, Elisa Mambrino and David D. Preiss.

    • This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this…

    ISBN: 9781848728127

    Published Jan 19, 2012 by Psychology Press

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  • By Vicki Bruce, and Andy Young.

    • Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In…

    ISBN: 9781841698786

    Published Dec 21, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • By Nan Jiang.

    • This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in such research. It provides a lucid explanation of the technical aspects of collecting reaction time data and outlines…

    ISBN: 9780415879347

    Published Dec 19, 2011 by Routledge

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  • Edited by Wolfram Hinzen, and David Poeppel.

    • The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming…

    ISBN: 9781848727502

    Published Nov 15, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • By Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, Jane Ashby and Charles Clifton Jr..

    • Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important…

    ISBN: 9781848729759

    Published Nov 08, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Michele Miozzo, and Brenda Rapp.

    • The ever-expanding repertoire of neurocognitive methods has provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate language production. The research reported in this volume demonstrates the usefulness of these methods for advancing our understanding of the neural bases of language production. …

    ISBN: 9781848727496

    Published Oct 13, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Eurydice B. Bauer, and Mileidis Gort.

    • A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to develop bilingualism and biliteracy if supported in their immediate environment. At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in…

    ISBN: 9780415880183

    Published Oct 05, 2011 by Routledge

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  • By Gianfranco Denes.
  • Translated by Philippa Venturelli Smith.

    • The origin, development, and nature of language has been the focus of theoretical debate among philosophers for many centuries. Following the pioneering clinical observations 150 years ago of loss of language following a cerebral lesion, language started to be considered a biological system, that…

    ISBN: 9781848720398

    Published Sep 06, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • By Debra Aarons.

    • Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language. In so doing, Debra Aarons shows that these 'linguistic jokes' can evoke our tacit knowledge of the language we use. Analyzing…

    ISBN: 9780415890496

    Published Aug 16, 2011 by Routledge

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  • By Alan S. Brown.

    • This book brings together the body of empirical findings and theoretical interpretations of the tip of the tongue (TOT) experience – when a well-known or familiar word cannot immediately be recalled. Although research has been published on TOTs for over a century, the experience retains its…

    ISBN: 9781841694443

    Published Jul 19, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Raymond Bertram, Jukka Hyönä and Matti Laine.

    • Does darkness lead to happiness? Is there corn in the corner? These are questions that make - to some extent - semantically sense, but for researchers interested in the role of morphology in word processing they make morphologically sense as well. This Special Issue on Morphological Processing is…

    ISBN: 9781848727441

    Published Jun 13, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Mary Shepard Wong, and Suresh Canagarajah.

    • The legacy of English teaching and Christian missionaries is a flashpoint within the field of English language teaching. This critical examination of the place of Christianity in the field is unique in presenting the voices of TESOL professionals from a wide range of religious and spiritual…

    ISBN: 9780415504676

    Published Jun 09, 2011 by Routledge

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  • By Andrew Goatly.

    • In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly looks at how we use metaphor to communicate meaning. Combining insights from functional linguistics and relevance theory, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to…

    ISBN: 9780415586382

    Published May 26, 2011 by Routledge

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  • By Cecil L. Nelson.

    • Intelligibility is the term most generally used to address the complex of criteria that describe, broadly, how useful someone’s English is when talking or writing to someone else. Set within the paradigm of world Englishes – which posits that the Englishes of the world may be seen as flexibly…

    ISBN: 9780415871822

    Published May 01, 2011 by Routledge

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  • Edited by Susan A. Brady, David Braze and Carol A. Fowler.

    • Research into reading development and reading disabilities has been dominated by phonologically guided theories for several decades. In this volume, the authors of 11 chapters report on a wide array of current research topics, examining the scope, limits and implications of a phonological theory.…

    ISBN: 9781848729360

    Published Apr 17, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Marc H. Bornstein, and Michael E. Lamb.

    • This new text consists of parts of Bornstein and Lamb’s Developmental Science, 6th edition along with new introductory material that as a whole provides a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of cognitive development. Each of the world-renowned contributors masterfully introduces the…

    ISBN: 9781848729254

    Published Mar 24, 2011 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Eli Hinkel.

    • This landmark volume provides a broad-based, comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning. All authors are leading authorities in their areas of expertise. The chapters, all completely new for Volume 2, are organized in eight…

    ISBN: 9780415998727

    Published Jan 17, 2011 by Routledge

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  • By Annette M.B. de Groot.

    • Psycholinguistics – the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language – had a strong monolingual orientation during the first four decades following its emergence around 1950. The awareness that a…

    ISBN: 9781848729018

    Published Nov 14, 2010 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Vivian Cook, and Benedetta Bassetti.

    • This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals. It brings together contributions from international leading figures in various disciplines and showcases contemporary research on the emerging area of bilingual…

    ISBN: 9781848729247

    Published Nov 14, 2010 by Psychology Press

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  • By Hossein Nassaji, and Sandra S. Fotos.

    • Recent SLA research recognizes the necessity of attention to grammar and demonstrates that form-focused instruction is especially effective when it is incorporated into a meaningful communicative context. Designed specifically for second-language teachers, this text identifies and explores the…

    ISBN: 9780415802055

    Published Nov 07, 2010 by Routledge

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  • Edited by Gideon Keren.

    • Language comprises a major mark of humans compared with other primates and is the main vehicle for social interaction. A major characteristic of any natural language is that the same communication, idea, or intention can be articulated in different ways—in other words, the same message can be "…

    ISBN: 9781848729032

    Published Oct 24, 2010 by Psychology Press

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  • By John Matthews.

    • This book compares the beginning of symbolic thought in human infancy with that of our close primate relatives, the chimpanzees. The author investigates the precursors of symbolism by studying the actions and interactions of a small group of these intelligent, non-human primates who live in…

    ISBN: 9781841696898

    Published Oct 21, 2010 by Psychology Press

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  • Edited by Jackie Guendouzi, Filip Loncke and Mandy J. Williams.

    • This handbook includes an overview of those areas of cognition and language processing that are relevant to the field of communication disorders, and provides examples of theoretical approaches to problems and issues in communication disorders. The first section includes a collection of chapters…

    ISBN: 9781848729100

    Published Sep 06, 2010 by Psychology Press

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