Paperbacks Direct: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Automaticity and Control in Language Processing

Edited by Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon, Andrea Krott

Series: Advances in Behavioural Brain Science

The use of language is a fundamental component of much of our day-to-day life. Language often co-occurs with other activities with which it must be coordinated. This raises the question of whether the cognitive processes involved in planning spoken utterances and in understanding them are...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

Figurative Language Comprehension

Social and Cultural Influences

Edited by 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...

Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge

Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages

A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Word Formation

Edited by Diane Brentari

This book takes a close look at the ways that five sign languages borrow elements from the surrounding, dominant spoken language community where each is situated. It offers careful analyses of semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological adaption of forms taken from a source language (in this case a...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

From Orthography to Pedagogy

Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky

Edited by Thomas R. Trabasso, John P. Sabatini, Dominic W. Massaro, Robert Calfee

From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances...

Published February 4th 2013 by Psychology Press

Interactions Between Short-Term and Long-Term Memory in the Verbal Domain

By Annabel Thorn, Mike Page

The relationship between short-term and long-term memory systems is an issue of central concern to memory theorists. The association between temporary memory mechanisms and established knowledge bases is now regarded as critical to the development of theoretical and computational accounts of verbal...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development

The Development and Consequences of Symbolic Communication

Edited by Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes

Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development. Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's ability to express themselves symbolically, whether that involves communicating linguistically,...

Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press

Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages

Edited by Karen Emmorey

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality. The major goals are to bring to light critical issues related to the study of classifier constructions and to present state-of-the-art linguistic and...

Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press

Pointing

Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

Edited by Sotaro Kita

Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been very limited. The editor's aim is to provide...

Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press

Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications

Edited by Tina M. Lowrey

The field of psycholinguistics and the application of psycholinguistic theory to advertising and marketing communication has become a topic of great prominence in the field of consumer behavior. Psycholinguistic Phenomena in Marketing Communications is the first book to address the growing research...

Published January 10th 2013 by Psychology Press

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2

Typological and Contextual Perspectives

Edited by Sven Str”mqvist, Ludo Verhoeven, Sven Stromqvist

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press

Semantic Priming

Perspectives from Memory and Word Recognition

By Timothy P. McNamara

Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations. Semantic Priming:...

Published August 15th 2012 by Psychology Press

Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society

Implications of the Work of Jack Goody

Edited by David R. Olson, Michael Cole

Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address...

Published December 4th 2012 by Psychology Press

Twenty-First Century Psycholinguistics

Four Cornerstones

Edited by Anne Cutler

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and linguistics, a relationship which has changed and advanced over the half century of the field's independent existence....

Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge