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  • The Signs of a Savant

    Language Against the Odds

    by Neil Smith, Ianthi Tsimpli, Gary Morgan, Bencie Woll ...
    Every once in a while nature gives us insight into the human condition by providing us with a unique case whose special properties illuminate the species as a whole. Christopher is such an example. Despite disabilities which mean that everyday tasks are burdensome chores, Christopher is a linguistic wonder who can read, write, speak, understand and translate more than twenty languages. On some ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    "Strike me dead, the track has vanished, Well, what now? We've lost the way, Demons have bewitched our horses, Led us in the wilds astray. "What a number! Whither drift they? What's the mournful dirge they sing? Do they hail a witch's marriage Or a goblin's burying?" Pushkin. "And there was one herd of many swine feeding on this mountain; and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Behavior and Learning

    by J. E. R. Staddon ...
    Every day at about 4:30, Jazz, a Hungarian Vizsla dog, leaps up on the sofa and looks out for his owner who always comes home at 5:00. He doesn't need an internal clock because he has an acute sense of smell that allows him to measure how long his master has been absent. Explaining complex behavior in simple ways, this book is a fascinating exploration of the evolution, development and processes ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • How Language Began

    Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

    by David McNeill ...
    Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
    Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Why We Gesture

    The Surprising Role of Hand Movements in Communication

    by David McNeill ...
    Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely ornamentation to speech? Are they simply an 'add-on' to spoken language? Why do we gesture? These and other questions are addressed in this fascinating book. McNeill explains that the common view of language and gesture as ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Pragmatics and Non-Verbal Communication

    by Tim Wharton ...
    The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with linguistic ones is a question that is often largely ignored. This book redresses the balance, ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion

    Theoretical Foundations for Document Design

    by Kim Sydow Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    There is a need for general theoretical principles describing/explaining effective design -- those which demonstrate "unity" and enhance comprehension and usability. Theories of cohesion from linguistics and of comprehension in psychology are likely sources of such general principles. Unfortunately, linguistic approaches to discourse unity have focused exclusively on semantic elements such as ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    by Paul Jordan ...
    Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Language

    From Data to Theory

    by Trevor A. Harley ...
    Now in full colour, this fully revised edition of the best-selling 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.Whilst maintaining both the structure of the previous editions and the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts

    by Anna M. Borghi, Ferdinand Binkofski ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    How are abstract concepts and words represented in the brain? That is the central question addressed by the authors of “Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts”. First, they focus on the difficulties in defining what abstract concepts and words are, and what they mean in psycholinguistic research. Then the authors go on to describe and critically discuss the main theories on ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • 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 Sandler offer a glimpse into a number of fascinatin ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind

    The Madness of Culture

    by L. Berger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this book offers a provocative, original analysis of the global threats to our survival, and proposes a remedy. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD