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  • How Language Makes Meaning

    Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy

    de Herbert L. Colston ...
    Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations, traditional meaning-making processes and a myriad of semantic and other meaning contributors to formulate a new model of how language functions following a pattern of conjoined antonymy. It investigates how ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought

    Edición de Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, Herbert L. Colston ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action, and artistic expression. They cover five main themes: the scope of irony in human experience; irony's impact (both personal and in social life); ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Using Figurative Language

    de Herbert L. Colston ...
    Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?' This research empirically investigates goals speakers or writers have when speaking (writing) figuratively, and concomitantly, meaning effects wrought by figurative language usage. These 'pragmatic effects' arise from ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Figurative Language Comprehension

    Social and Cultural Influences

    Edición de Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz ...
    Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Interpreting Figurative Meaning

    de Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, Herbert L. Colston ...
    Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory literature on how people understand figures of speech. Gibbs and Colston argue that there may not be a single theory or model that adequately ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics

    Edición de Yan Huang ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Language As Social Action

    Social Psychology and Language Use

    de Thomas M. Holtgraves ...
    This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative and timely review of language as social action. The book successfully weaves together research from philosophy, linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, pragmatics, and artificial intelligence. In this way, it clearly demonstrates how many aspects of ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Linguistics

    A Very Short Introduction

    de P. H. Matthews ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, 'arts' end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Women Talk More Than Men

    ... And Other Myths about Language Explained

    de Abby Kaplan ...
    Do women talk more than men? Does text messaging make you stupid? Can chimpanzees really talk to us? This fascinating textbook addresses a wide range of language myths, focusing on important big-picture issues such as the rule-governed nature of language or the influence of social factors on how we speak. Case studies and analysis of relevant experiments teach readers the skills to become informed ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition

    de Prof. Vivian Cook, Prof. David Singleton ...
    Series Libro 10 - MM Textbooks
    This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a comprehensive introduction to SLA research.Each chapter comprises an introductory discussion of the issues involved and suggestions for further ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Psycholinguistics

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Fernanda Ferreira ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding language probably seem like simple and straightforward skills, but research in psycholinguistics has shown that complex computations take place behind the scenes when you communicate with others. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Stories and the Brain

    The Neuroscience of Narrative

    de Paul B. Armstrong ...
    This book explains how the brain interacts with the social world—and why stories matter.How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.Armstrong argues that the ways ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD