More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Avery Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593545270ISBN-10:593545273UPC:9780593545270Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Social PsychologyBook Topic:PsycholinguisticsSize:9.43 x 6.35 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SC8DDGT30E
More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our best thoughts."
--MARYANNE WOLF, author of Proust and the Squid and Reader Come Home Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign...
--MARYANNE WOLF, author of Proust and the Squid and Reader Come Home Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Avery Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780593545270ISBN-10:593545273UPC:9780593545270Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Science, PsychologyBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Social PsychologyBook Topic:PsycholinguisticsSize:9.43 x 6.35 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.0406Product ID:SC8DDGT30E
Maryellen MacDonald is the Donald P. Hayes Professor (emerit) of Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a cognitive scientist with a focus on psycholinguistics, the study of how we comprehend, produce, and learn languages. She has researched the impact of language in children, young adults, elderly adults, and patients with Alzheimer's disease, as well as...
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