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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This volume was designed to identify the current limits of progress in the psychology of reading and language processing in an information processing framework. Leaders in their fields of interest, the chapter authors couple current theoretical analyses with new, formally presented experiments. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Published in 1987, Motor and Sensory Processes of Language is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.
A Proverb in Mind
The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses. To accommodate the assorted possible audiences, this volume outlines seven views of the proverb -- personal, formal, religious,...
A Conceptual Blending Theory of Humour
Selected British Comedy Productions in Focus
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
The book presents an analysis of humour in a selection of British comedy productions. The conceptual integration theory devised by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner, also known as blending, provides the tool for explaining the creation of humour in detail. It seems that blending can elaborate on the...
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Discourse Coherence
From Standardness to Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book presents a comprehensive study of the subject of text and discourse coherence, integrating some of the traditional trends of discourse analysis and creating new channels of research which help to understand the notion further. Based on the work of leading theoreticians and on the actual...
Psycholinguistic Implications for Linguistic Relativity
A Case Study of Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Rather than offering variations in "world view" as evidence for linguistic relativity, this book views language related differences in terms of the facility with which information is processed. Distinctive perceptual, memory, and neurolinguistic aspects of the Chinese language are discussed,...
Slavic Grammar from a Formal Perspective
The 10th Anniversary FDSL Conference, Leipzig 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages in Leipzig 2013 offer current formal investigations into Slavic morphology, phonology, semantics, syntax and information structure. In addition to papers of the main conference, the volume presents those of two...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence. However, words and sentences are organized with respect to morphological as well as phonological...
Talking to Adults
The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2002
This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities. The book focuses on the complexity of the cultural and interactional contexts in which pragmatic learning...
The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition
Volume 1: the Data
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
An essential handbook for professionals and advanced students in the field. Volume 1 contains comprehensive studies on the acquisition of 15 different languages (from ASL to Samoan) -- written by top researchers on each topic. Volume 2 concentrates on theoretical issues, emphasizing current linguistic...
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Set in the French countryside of George Sand’s childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The brothers, Landry and Sylvinet, belong to...
by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
One of the most significant and far-reaching events in U. S. history, the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 sharpened and brought to a head a number of crucial questions concerning slavery, states' rights, the legal status of blacks, and the effects of the Dred Scott decision. The debates were held...
The World's Great Sermons
Volume Ii—Hooker To South
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The aim in preparing this work has been to bring together the best examples of the products of the pulpit through the Christian centuries, and to present these masterpieces in attractive and convenient form. It is believed that they will be found valuable as instruction to ministers of to-day. They...
by Paul Joel Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
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