Discourse, Cognition and Communication
Edited by Ted J.M. Sanders and Leo Lentz
Special issue of Information Design Journal 15:3 (2007) ii, 107 pp.
BIC SubjectsPsychology
Pragmatic Interfaces
Edited by Louis de Saussure and Peter J. Schulz
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:1 (2007) 236 pp.
Distributed Cognition
Edited by Stevan Harnad and Itiel E. Dror
Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been distributed for millions of years – for as long as our species has had language and tools to help us interact and collaborate and achieve far more than any of us could have done individually. But something radically new is happening to distributed… read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) 268 pp.
Progress in Colour Studies: Volume II. Psychological aspects
Edited by Nicola Pitchford and Carole P. Biggam
The study of colour attracts researchers from a wide range of disciplines from both the sciences and the arts. Along with its companion volume, Progress in Colour Studies 1: Language and Culture, this book offers a fascinating insight into current issues and research into colour. Most of the papers… read more[Not in series, PICS 2] 2006. xiv, 237 pp.
Curious Emotions: Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action
Ralph D. Ellis
Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 61] 2005. viii, 238 pp.
Memory and Understanding: Concept formation in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu
Renate Bartsch
This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 63] 2005. x, 158 pp.
The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit: On Robert B. Brandom
Edited by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 13:1 (2005) 257 pp.
The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar
Michele Prandi
The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 13] 2004. xviii, 520 pp.
Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Case studies in the cognitive science of science
András Kertész
The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific… read more[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 4] 2004. viii, 259 pp.
Inference and Anticipation in Simultaneous Interpreting: A probability-prediction model
Ghelly V. Chernov
Until now, Ghelly Chernov’s work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally, Chernov’s major work, originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 57] 2004. xxx, 266 pp.
Narrative Counselling: Social and linguistic processes of change
Peter Muntigl
What actually happens in counselling interactions? How does counselling bring about change? How do clients end up producing new and alternative stories of their lives and relationships? By addressing these questions and others, Peter Muntigl explores the narrative counselling process in the context… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 11] 2004. x, 347 pp.
The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition
Vyvyan Evans
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base,… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 12] 2004. x, 286 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 1: Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation
Fernando Poyatos
In a progressive and systematic approach to communication, and always through an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this first volume presents culture as an intricate grid of sensible and intelligible sign systems in space and time, identifying the semiotic and interactive problems… read more[Not in series, NCAD 1] 2002. xxvi, 371 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction
Fernando Poyatos
Paralanguage and kinesics define the tripartite nature of speech. Volume 2 builds on Poyatos’ book Paralanguage (1993) – reviewed by Mary Key as “the most amplified description of paralanguage available today”. It covers our basic voice components; the many normal or abnormal voice types; the… read more[Not in series, NCAD 2] 2002. xviii, 458 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: Volume 3: Narrative literature, theater, cinema, translation
Fernando Poyatos
This volume, based on the first two, identifies the verbal and nonverbal personal and environmental components of narrative and dramaturgic texts and the cinema — recreated in the first through the ‘reading act’ according to gaze mechanism and punctuation — and traces the coding-decoding processes… read more[Not in series, NCAD 3] 2002. xx, 287 pp.
Nonverbal Communication across Disciplines: 3 Volumes (set)
Fernando Poyatos
The interdisciplinary field of Nonverbal Communication Studies is covered in these three volumes in a great variety of aspects, including sensory exchanges, intercultural communication and problems, and the deeper levels of personal as well as person-environment interactions. Taking roots in… read more[Not in series, NCAD S] 2002. 1180 pp.
Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse
Edited by Carl Friedrich Graumann and Werner Kallmeyer
‘Perspective’ and ‘viewpoint’ are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 9] 2002. vi, 400 pp.
Simulation and Knowledge of Action
Edited by Jérôme Dokic and Joëlle Proust
The current debate between theory theory and simulation theory on the nature of mentalisation has reached no consensus yet, although many now think that some hybrid theory is needed. This collection of essays represents an effort at re-evaluating the scope of simulation theory, while also… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 45] 2002. xxii, 271 pp.
Epistemic Modality, Language, and Conceptualization: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective
Jan Nuyts
The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research. This monograph addresses this issue by means of an in depth corpus based and experimental investigation of the major types of expressions of epistemic modality in Dutch, German and English. read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 5] 2001. xx, 428 pp.
Face Recognition: Cognitive and computational processes
Sam S. Rakover and Baruch Cahlon
Face Recognition: Cognitive and Computational Processes critically discusses current research in face recognition, leading to an original approach with criminological applications. The book covers The methodological and philosophical basis of research in face recognition. Findings and their… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 31] 2001. x, 304 pp.
The Structure of Arguments
Izchak M. Schlesinger, Tamar Keren-Portnoy and Tamar Parush
An important tool for scientific study in any field is a formal language in which the phenomena can be described and hypotheses formulated. In this book a formal notation is developed for the description of the cognitive structure of arguments. The analyses based on this notation are more… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 7] 2001. xx, 263 pp.
Beyond Dissociation: Interaction between dissociated implicit and explicit processing
Edited by Yves Rossetti and Antti Revonsuo
Analysis and dissociation have proved to be useful tools to understand the basic functions of the brain and the mind, which therefore have been decomposed to a multitude of ever smaller subsystems and pieces by most scientific approaches. However, the understanding of complex functions such as… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 22] 2000. x, 372 pp.
Exploring the Self: Philosophical and psychopathological perspectives on self-experience
Edited by Dan Zahavi
The aim of this volume is to discuss recent research into self-experience and its disorders,and to contribute to a better integration of the different empirical and conceptual perspectives. Among the topics discussed are questions like ‘What is a self?,’ ‘What is the relation between the… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 23] 2000. viii, 299 pp.
Facial Information Processing: A multidisciplinary perspective
Itiel E. Dror and Sarah V. Stevenage
Research in areas from psychology through computer science to neuroscience and clinical case studies. read moreSpecial issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 8:1 (2000) viii, 276 pp.
Investigating Phenomenal Consciousness: New methodologies and maps
Edited by Max Velmans
How can one investigate phenomenal consciousness? As in other areas of science, the investigation of consciousness aims for a more precise knowledge of its phenomena, and the discovery of general truths about their nature. This requires the development of appropriate first-person, second-person and… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 13] 2000. xii, 381 pp.
Language Processing and Simultaneous Interpreting: Interdisciplinary perspectives
Edited by Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Kenneth Hyltenstam
This volume brings together papers from the areas of psychology, general linguistics, psycholinguistics, as well as from simultaneous interpreting. Their common focus is how theories and methodologies from various disciplines can be applied to the study of simultaneous interpreting, and also to… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 40] 2000. xvi, 164 pp.
Microgenetic Approach to the Conscious Mind
Talis Bachmann
Many secrets of nature have been discovered since we have a better understanding of microstructures, for example subatomic spheres in physics and genetic structures in biochemistry. This book is set to convey an overview of the history, methods, findings and theoretical accounts of microgenetic… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 25] 2000. xiv, 298 pp.
Tapping and Mapping the Processes of Translation and Interpreting: Outlooks on empirical research
Edited by Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit and Riitta Jääskeläinen
This volume brings together cognitive psychologists, interpreting scholars and translation researchers, who look at the process phenomena involved in translation and interpreting (T/I) from various linguistic vantage points.The focus is on methodology and the problems that loom large in a… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 37] 2000. x, 176 pp.
Language Diversity and Cognitive Representations
Edited by Catherine Fuchs and Stéphane Robert
Significant new developments in brain activity research have revived the debate on the universality of language and its neural basis. Within this debate, the question of language diversity and its implications for cognition remains central and controversial. It is here investigated in an original… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 3] 1999. x, 229 pp.
Metonymy in Language and Thought
Edited by Klaus-Uwe Panther and Günter Radden
Metonymy in Language and Thought gives a state-of-the-art account of metonymic research. The contributions have different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology and literary studies. However, they share the assumption that metonymy is a cognitive… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 4] 1999. vii, 423 pp.
Pathways of the Brain: The neurocognitive basis of language
Sydney M. Lamb
The brain is the organ of knowledge and organizer of our abilities, our means of recognizing a face in a crowd, of conversing about anything we experience or imagine, of forming thoughts and developing ideas, of instantly understanding words coming rapidly in conversation. How does it manage all… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 170] 1999. xii, 416 pp.
The Aconceptual Mind: Heideggerian themes in holistic naturalism
Pauli Pylkkö
According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations. It can only serve the veiled interests of modern Western technology in its inherent inclination to attain global dominance. But these eight thematically intertwined essays face… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 11] 1998. xxvi, 298 pp.
Language Structure, Discourse and the Access to Consciousness
Edited by Maxim I. Stamenov
The focus of this collective volume is on the mutual determination of language structure, discourse patterns and the accessibility to consciousness of mental contents of different types of organization and complexity. The contributions address the following problems, among others: the history of… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 12] 1997. xii, 364 pp.
The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation
Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †
Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our… read more[Not in series, 85] 1997. xviii, 337 pp.
Linguistics and Psychoanalysis: Freud, Saussure, Hjelmslev, Lacan and others
Michel Arrivé
If you read or reread Freud, it is difficult not to find on a single page references to language: from speech to text, from slip of the tongue to word play, from letter to meaning-passing inevitably through the strange notion of literal meaning, that fascinated Freud. In short, the unconscious is… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 4] 1992. xvi, 178 pp.
The Linguistics of Literacy
Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan
This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 21] 1992. xx, 334 pp.
Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language
Edited by Lynn Eubank
Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion… read more[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 3] 1991. x, 439 pp.