Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Language and bilingual cognition Language and bilingual cognition Vivian Cook Focusing on bilinguals, this text provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition. OL15949280W
Actual minds, possible worlds Actual minds, possible worlds Jerome S. Bruner Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imag… OL2976730W
The structure of magic The structure of magic Richard Bandler The book forms the base of nlp OL3003259W
Madhouse of Language Madhouse of Language Allan Ingram In The Madhouse of Language, the history of writing about madness is seen in terms of a suppression of mad language by an increasingly confident medical profession, in which orthodox attitudes toward… OL4081013W
Mental models Mental models P. N. Johnson-Laird This book offers a unified theory of the major propertries of mind, including comprehension, inference, and consciousness. The author argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental repli… OL4211253W
Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics Danny D. Steinberg How do we learn to produce and comprehend speech? How does language relate to thought? This second edition of the successful text Psycholinguistics- Language, Mind and World considers the psychology … OL4310391W
The Language Instinct ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science) The Language Instinct ("Daily Telegraph" Talking Science) Steven Pinker From the Preface... I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kin… OL477832W