The Psychology of Language, Reading and Writing
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The Psychology of Language
From Data to Theory, 4th Edition
This fully revised edition of the popular textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. It contains everything the student needs to know about how we acquire, understand, produce, and store language....
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Psychology Press
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Uncommon Understanding (Classic Edition)
Development and disorders of language comprehension in children
Series: Psychology Press Classic Editions
This is a 'classic edition' of Dorothy Bishop's award-winning text on the development of language comprehension, which has been in print since 1997 and now includes a new introduction from the author. It integrates research in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to...
To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Psychology of Reading
2nd Edition
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...
Published November 8th 2011 by Psychology Press
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Talking Heads
The Neuroscience of Language
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...
Published September 6th 2011 by Psychology Press
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Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals
An Introduction
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...
Published November 14th 2010 by Psychology Press
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Talking the Talk
Language, Psychology and Science
Language makes us human, but how do we use it and how do children learn it? Talking the Talk is an introduction to the psychology of language. Written for the reader with no background in the area or knowledge of psychology, it explains how we actually "do" language: how we speak, listen, and read....
Published December 20th 2009 by Psychology Press
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Understanding Developmental Language Disorders
From Theory to Practice
Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of their family doctor. Although...
Published June 30th 2008 by Psychology Press