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In this enlightening biography, award- winning academic psychologist Michael Corballis tells the story of how the field of cognitive psychology evolved and the controversies and anecdotes that occurred along the way. Since the second world war, psychology has undergone several sc...ientific movements from behaviourism, to cognitive psychology and finally to neuroscience. In this fascinating biography, Corballis recounts his career as a researcher who played a part of these monumental changes in psychology. Beginning with his boarding-school education in New Zealand, Corballis goes on to recount his gaining of a PhD and behavioural research into mirror-image discriminations in pigeons, the uprising of the cognitive revolution amidst 1960s counterculture and his switch to become a cognitive psychologist, his research into brain asymmetry and the evolution of language and its origin of manual gestures, and the development of mental time travel in animals. Featuring stories of prominent scientists integral in psychology's biggest discoveries and insight into the heated debates and controversies in psychology during a time of great scientific and sociocultural change, this biography is a must-read for those interested in how psychology became established as a science.
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Designed for students with no prior experience in linguistics, this is an engaging guide to the rich variety and typology of world languages. This third edition has been updated with new problem sets, an updated glossary and index, and a new section on linguistic cartography.
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An odyssey that takes us from Homer to Darwin, from scientists to savages, from the corridors of Yale to the rivers of the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water - a 'she' - become a 'he' once you have dipped a tea bag into her. It explores some of the fascinat...ing questions about language, culture and the human mind.
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A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.
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The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the world. English has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French ...words and phrases-such as a la mode, ennui, naivete and caprice-len
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By Ayto, John
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This dictionary defines a myriad of phrases and sayings that are used daily in the English language. It contains more than 10,000 idioms, including figurative expressions, similes, sayings, and proverbs, and features usage examples and information on origins for many of them.
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By Cryer, Max
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Language expert Max Cryer's new book is an up-to-date guide to some of the most interesting words and phrases in the English language: where they come from, why we say them, what they mean. Bulging with information, it is a useful reference book and the ideal gift for anyone curi...ous about the words and expressions we use.
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Conversation and speaking skills are the key building blocks for much of language learning. This text increases awareness about spoken language and suggests how to teach second-language interaction skills based on insights from Conversation Analysis.
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This special issue shows how accessibility phenomena need to be studied from a linguistic and psycholinguistic angle, and in the latter case from interpretation, as well as production. The contributions augment the growing knowledge of accessibility in text and discourse processi...ng.
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Examines variation in vowel configurations in African American English
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