Cognitive Psychology Arena

The Signs of Language Revisited

An Anthology To Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima

• Edited by Karen Emmorey, Harlan L. Lane

The burgeoning of research on signed language during the last two decades has had a major influence on several disciplines concerned with mind and language,...

Published May 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Rights to Language

Equity, Power, and Education

• Edited by Robert Phillipson

Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education brings together cutting-edge scholarship in language, education, and society from all parts of the world. Celebrating the 60th...

Published May 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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The Childes Project

Tools for Analyzing Talk, Volume I: Transcription format and Programs

• By Brian MacWhinney

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project. It is divided into two parts which provide...

Published April 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Handbook of Undergraduate Second Language Education

• Edited by Judith W. Rosenthal

This volume offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date description of the wide array of second language programs currently available to undergraduate students in the United States...

Published April 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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The Childes Project

Tools for Analyzing Talk, Volume II: the Database

• By Brian MacWhinney

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project. It is divided into two parts which provide...

Published April 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Handbook of Reading Research, Volume III

• Edited by Michael L. Kamil, Peter B. Mosenthal, P. David Pearson, Rebecca Barr

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and,...

Published March 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Conversation Analysis

• By Numa Markee

Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety...

Published February 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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The Uses and Processing of Irony and Sarcasm

A Special Issue of metaphor and Symbol

• Edited by Albert N. Katz

The five papers in this special issue, and the commentary on them by Roger Kreuz, are at the cutting edge of research on irony and...

Published February 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Storymaking in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms

Constructing and Interpreting Narrative Texts

• By Joanne M. Golden

This book examines storymaking processes in K-8 classrooms from a social-semiotic perspective that highlights how participants' discourse influences story construction and interpretation. It is unique...

Published January 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?

• By Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

In this powerful, multidisciplinary book, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas shows how most indigenous and minority education contributes to linguistic genocide according to United Nations definitions. Theory is...

Published January 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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