SubjectsPsychology

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Dialogue Studies

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 1875-1792

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Language and Dialogue

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 2210-4119 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4127
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Consciousness: New perspectives, artificial consciousness, and the scientific progress of psychology

Sam S. Rakover

The book discusses consciousness and several theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon. So far, no one has been able to explain how the brain creates consciousness, mainly because no way has been discovered to measure it. The book’s main innovations are as follows:(1) A coherent treatment of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 96] 2026. xviii, 192 pp.
Other subjects Consciousness research
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Practices of Dialogue, Dialogues in Practice

Edited by Alain Létourneau, Geneviève Boivin and Nicolas Bencherki

Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:2 (2023) v, 153 pp.
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Growing Sideways in Twenty-first Century British Culture: Challenging boundaries between childhood and adulthood

Anne Malewski

This volume examines changing boundaries between childhood and adulthood in British society and culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century − where these age boundaries are widely debated, policed, and contested − to investigate alternatives to conventional ideas of growing up. Building on… read more
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The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication

Viviana Masia

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 322] 2021. xvi, 220 pp. + index
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Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian

The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.
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Perception Metaphors

Edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque and Asifa Majid

Metaphor allows us to think and talk about one thing in terms of another, ratcheting up our cognitive and expressive capacity. It gives us concrete terms for abstract phenomena, for example, ideas become things we can grasp or let go of. Perceptual experience—characterised as physical and… read more
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Eye Tracking and Multidisciplinary Studies on Translation

Edited by Callum Walker and Federico M. Federici

Through cohesive yet wide-ranging contributions focused on the rapidly growing area of eye tracking in Translation Studies, this volume provides readers with an insightful cross-section of the state of the art in this multidisciplinary field. Showcasing the great potential and challenges of this… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 143] 2018. vi, 295 pp.
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Consciousness and Object: A mind-object identity physicalist theory

Riccardo Manzotti

What is the conscious mind? What is experience? In 1968, David Armstrong asked “What is a man?” and replied that a man is “a certain sort of material object”. This book starts from his question but proceeds along a different path. The traditional mind-brain identity theory is set aside, and a… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 95] 2017. xv, 254 pp.
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