The psychology of language and communication /
Geoffrey Beattie and Andrew Ellis.
- Classic Edition.
- xx, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Psychology Press and Routledge classics .
- Psychology Press and Routledge classics .
Revised edition of the authors' The psychology of language and communication, c1986.
Preface -- Introduction -- The nature of communication, channels of human communication -- Kinesic channels of human communication -- The language channel -- Linguistic diversity : babel and beyond -- Variation within a language -- The psycholinguistics of speaking -- The stream of behaviour : co-ordinating verbal and non-verbal channels -- Conversation as co-operative interaction -- Conversational structure -- Writing -- Language reception : recognizing spoken and written words -- Language comprehension and memory -- The cognitive neuropsychology of language and communication -- The development of language and communication.