Traditional mechanistic accounts of language processing derive almost entirely from the
study of monologue. Yet, the most natural and basic form of language use is dialogue. As a …

Accessibility theory (Ariel 1985a, 1990 and onwards) describes how human language,
speciWcally, the referential system, is responsive to facts about human memory, where …

Both knowledge and discourse are fundamental notions in the humanities and social
sciences. It is therefore surprising that so little detailed research has been done on the …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

When people interpret language, they can reduce the ambiguity of linguistic expressions by
using information about perspective: the speaker's, their own, or a shared perspective. In …

By 6 years, children have a sophisticated adult-like theory of mind that enables them not
only to understand the actions of social agents in terms of underlying mental states, but also …

This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides
an integrative and timely review of language as social action. The book successfully weaves …

Young children's communication has often been characterized as egocentric. Some
researchers claim that the processing of language involves an initial stage that relies on …