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  • 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

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  • You're the Only One I Can Tell

    Inside the Language of Women's Friendships

    by Deborah Tannen ...
    This warm, wise exploration of female friendship from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Just Don’t Understand will help women lean into these powerful relationships.A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • “Celebrates friendship in its frustrations and its rewards and, above all, its wonderful complexity.”—The AtlanticBest friend, old friend, good friend, bff, college roommate, neighbor, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Coming Home

    One man's return to the Irish Language

    by Michael McCaughan ...
    'Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.' 'A hugely enjoyable linguistic travelogue that is also a sort of love story: full of passion, lightness, but, also, commitment. McCaughan's engaging prose is a joy to read. Discover the Sex Pistols' connection with Cúil Aodha and many another startling fact ... Read more

    $7.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Bilingual Figurative Language Processing

    Edited by Anna B. Cieślicka, Roberto R. Heredia ...
    Bilingual Figurative Language Processing is a timely book that provides a much-needed bilingual perspective to the broad field of figurative language. This is the first book of its kind to address how bilinguals acquire, store, and process figurative language, such as idiomatic expressions (such as kick the bucket), metaphors (such as lawyers are sharks), and irony, and how these tropes might ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Understanding English Language Variation in U.S. Schools

    by Anne H. Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    In today’s culturally diverse classrooms, students possess and use many culturally, ethnically, and regionally diverse English language varieties that may differ from standardized English. This book helps classroom teachers become attuned to these differences and offers practical strategies to support student achievement while fostering positive language attitudes in classrooms and beyond. The ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Revision Cognitive and Instructional Processes

    Cognitive and Instructional Processes

    Edited by Pierre Largy, Linda Allal, L. Chanquoy ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Writing
    Revision Revisited LINDA ALLAL* & LUCILE CHANQUOY** *University ofGeneva, SWitzerland, **UniversityofNantes, France Revision is a fundamental component of the writing process. So fundamental that for some specialists writing is largely a matter of revising, or as Murray (1978) stated, "Writing is rewriting..." (p. 85). Experience with writing does not, however, automatically translate into ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • 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 about related topics as well (e.g. structure and functioning of the central nervous system, research ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Bilingualism

    The Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic Interface

    by Joel Walters ...
    In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically. Joel Walters proposes a new approach to bilingualism processing--the Sociopragmatic ... Read more

    $70.99 USD