The Psychology of Language and Communication

ISBN-13: 9780863770517 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 388 str.

Andrew W. Ellis; Geoffrey Beattie

Opis

This book presents an informative and entertaining historical perspective, and illustrates the fact that insights gained into controversial problems in other fields and at other times can shed light on many of today's most contentious debates in

Spis treści

Preface. The Nature of Communication. Channels of Human Communication. Kinesic Channels of Human Communication. The Language Channel. Linguistic Diversity: Babel and Beyond. Variation Within a Language. The Psycholinguistics of Speaking. The Stream of Behaviour: Co-ordinating Verbal and Non-verbal Channels. Conversation as Co-operative Interaction. Conversational Structure. Writing. Language Reception: Recognizing Spoken and Written Words. Language Comprehension and Memory. The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language and Communication. The Development of Language and Communication.