Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences

One of the most important developments of the last fifty years has been the explosive increase in our knowledge about human language. Speech acquisition, reception, and production are arguably the most complex and distinctive operations of the human mind. This is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference resource for this knowledge.

List of contents

Part I. Introductory Essays: 1. Language structure in its human context: new directions for the language sciences in the twenty-first century William Croft; 2. The psychology of linguistic form Lee Osterhout, Richard A. Wright and Mark D. Allen; 3. The structure of meaning James Pustejovsky; 4. Social practices of speech and writing Florian Coulmas; 5. Explaining language: neuroscience, genetics and evolution Lyle Jenkins; 6. Acquisition of language Barbara Lust; 7. Elaborating speech and writing: verbal art Patrick Colm Hogan; Part II. Entries.

About the author

Patrick Colm Hogan is a professor in the Department of English and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of ten books, including Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists and The Mind and its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Colm Hogan, Patrick Colm (University of Connecticut) Hogan
• Assisted by: Patrick Colm Hogan (Editor), Hogan Patrick Colm (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107475908
• ISBN: 978-1-107-47590-8
• No. of pages: 1054
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Language, Linguistics, Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Reference works, Psycholinguistics, Cognition and cognitive psychology