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61. Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II

    A Project of the International Reading Association

    Edited by James Flood, Shirley Brice Heath, Diane Lapp

    The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II brings together state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the multiple ways through which...

    Published December 25th 2007 by Routledge
62. Language Production: Second International Workshop on Language Production

    A Special Issue of Language and Cognitive Processes

    Edited by Niels O Schiller, Victor Ferreira, F.-Xavier Alario

    Series: Special Issues of Language and Cognitive Processes

    This special issue on language production is based on a selection of contributions to the Second International Workshop on Language Production held in August 2005 in Maastricht. The volume is an overview of new directions within language production research and includes papers on word selection and...

    Published December 5th 2007 by Psychology Press
63. The Psychology of Language

    From Data to Theory, 3rd Edition

    By Trevor A Harley

    The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language, including how we acquire, understand, produce, and store language. The third edition contains new chapters on how...

    Published December 2nd 2007 by Psychology Press
64. Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Argument Structure

    Implications for Learnability

    Edited by Melissa Bowerman, Penelope Brown

    This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on argument structure and its role in language acquisition. Drawing on a broad range of crosslinguistic data, this volume shows that languages are much more diverse in their argument structure properties than has been realized. The volume is...

    Published October 15th 2007 by Routledge
65. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication

    By Vesna Mildner

    This is a book about speech and language. It is primarily intended for those interested in speech and its neurophysiological bases: phoneticians, linguists, educators, speech therapists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Although speech and language are its central topic, it provides information...

    Published October 11th 2007 by Psychology Press
66. A Language in Space

    The Story of Israeli Sign Language

    By Irit Meir, Wendy Sandler

    This English version of A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language, which received the Bahat Award for most outstanding book for a general audience in its Hebrew edition, is an introduction to sign language using Israeli Sign Language (ISL) as a model. Authors Irit Meir and Wendy...

    Published September 6th 2007 by Psychology Press
67. The Articulate Mammal

    An Introduction to Psycholinguistics, 5th Edition

    By Jean Aitchison, Jean Aitchison

    An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent theories, including new material on: the possibility of a ‘language gene’ post-Chomskyan ideas...

    Published September 5th 2007 by Routledge
68. Situation Models and Levels of Coherence

    Toward a Definition of Comprehension

    By Isabelle Tapiero

    The 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...

    Published July 11th 2007 by Routledge
69. Irony in Language and Thought

    A Cognitive Science Reader

    Edited by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr, Herbert L. Colston

    Irony in Language and Thought assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book. A much-needed resource in the area of figurative language, this volume centers on a theme from cognitive science - that...

    Published May 29th 2007 by Routledge
70. Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain

    Inference and Comprehension Processes

    Edited by Franz Schmalhofer, Charles A. Perfetti

    Higher Level Language Processes in the Brain is a groundbreaking book that explains how behavior research, computational models, and brain imaging results can be unified in the study of human comprehension. The volume illustrates the most comprehensive and newest findings on the topic. Each section...

    Published March 4th 2007 by Psychology Press