The psychology of language and communication - Beattie, Geoffrey; Ellis, Andrew W. (New York : Routledge, 2017)
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.
Revised edition of the authors' The psychology of language and communication, c1986.
Keywords: Psycholinguistics; Communication; Language and languages