1st Edition
The Psychology of Language And Communication
388 Pages
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Psychology Press
385 Pages
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Psychology Press
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This wide-ranging introduction to the psychology of human language use offers a new breadth of approach by breaching conventional disciplinary boundaries with examples and perspectives drawn from many subdisciplines - cognitive and social psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology and sociology. After an exploration of the diverse nature of communication, using examples throughout the animal... Read more
Preface. The Nature of Communication. Channels of Human Communication. Kinesic Channels of Human Communication. The Language Channel. Linguistic Diversity: Babel and Beyond. Variation Within a Language. The Psycholinguistics of Speaking. The Stream of Behaviour: Co-ordinating Verbal and Non-verbal Channels. Conversation as Co-operative Interaction. Conversational Structure. Writing. Language Reception: Recognizing Spoken and Written Words. Language Comprehension and Memory. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language and Communication. The Development of Language and Communication.
Biography
Geoffrey Beattie, Andrew Ellis
