The Psychology of Language And Communication - Hardcover

Andrew Ellis; Geoffrey Beattie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898626919 ISBN 13: 9780898626919

Publisher: Guilford Publications, 1986

Synopsis

This wide-ranging introduction to the psychology of human language use offers a new breadth of approach by breaching conventional disciplinary boundaries with examples and perspectives drawn from many subdisciplines - cognitive and social psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology and sociology. After an exploration of the diverse nature of communication, using examples throughout the animal kingdom, the authors focus on the range of human communicative channels, the nature of human language and the variations occurring between and within societies and cultures. Subsequent chapters cover speech production as a psycholinguistic skill; the coordination of verbal and non-verbal channels; the structure and management of conversations; language perception and comprehension; the cognitive neuropsychology of language, and the development of communicative skills. The book also 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 psychology.

About this title

Review:

"the non-specialist reader will find this the most accessible of the texts and the one which has the most relevance to concerns beyond psycholinguistics." - Times Higher Educational Supplement, 1986

About the Author:

Andrew Ellis and Geoffrey Beattie are lecturers in psychology at the Universities of Lancaster and Sheffield respectively. Both the authors have contributed numerous articles to scientific journals and they are both recipients of the British Psychological Society's prestigious Spearman Medal for published psychological work of outstanding merit: Andrew Ellis gained the award in 1982 for his study of cognitive and neuropsychological aspects of language, and Geoffrey Beattie received it in 1984 for his work in psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0898626919
• ISBN 13: 9780898626919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374