Psychology of Language
eBook - PDF

Psychology of Language

A Critical Introduction

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Psychology of Language

A Critical Introduction

About this book

`Appealing in its attempt to approach the psychology of language from a wide range of often controversial viewpoints.... Forrester?s book is a book of reflection. The work constitutes a nice addition to the alternative book library of the advanced graduate student or academic? - Contemporary Psychology

This comprehensive textbook brings together diverse themes on the psychology of language in an integrated way. Rather than covering only the formal-structural aspects of language, Forrester provides a broad view of the study of language across various perspectives, focusing throughout on interesting relationships between language and human psychological processes.

The book provides a clear introduction to key topics from language structure and processing, semantics and cognitive science, to conversation analysis, reading and writing, power relations in communication and postmodern psychology.

The author explores language by considering three themes: thinking - the cognitive processes of self-communication; talk - where the emphasis is on everyday conversational behaviour; and text - including the study of reading and writing. A coherent framework is developed by looking at topics which link the themes together, clearly demonstrating the relationship between language and communication processes.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. 1 - Introduction
  5. 2 - Language Structure and the Significance of Recursion
  6. 3 - Semantics: The Concept of Meaning
  7. 4 - Deixis: The Interface between Language and Social Interaction
  8. 5 - Conversational Analysis and Accountability in Everyday Talk
  9. 6 - Processes and Procedures in Conversational Interaction
  10. 7 - Power Relations in Language
  11. 8 - Sign-Systems and Social Semiotics
  12. 9 - The Role of the Reader in Text Interpretation
  13. 10 - Writing and the Construction of Narrative Text
  14. 11 - Postmodem Psychology and Language: Discourse Analysis and Social Psychology
  15. References
  16. Index