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Psyche and the Literary Muses: The contribution of literary content to scientific psychology

Martin S. Lindauer

Psyche and the Literary Muses focuses on the psychology of literature from an empirical point of view, rather than the more typical psychoanalytic position, and concentrates on literary content rather than readers or writers. The book centers on the author’s quantitative studies of brief literary… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 7] 2009. xiii, 209 pp.

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.

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 more

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 14:2 (2006) 268 pp.

Gesture, ritual and memory

Edited by Paul Bouissac

Special issue of Gesture 6:2 (2006) vi, 123 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 more

Special 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.