TY - BOOK AU - Forrester,Michael A. TI - Psychology of language: a critical introduction SN - 9781849207218 AV - BF455 .F638 1996eb U1 - 401/.9 22 PY - 1996/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications KW - Psycholinguistics KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Taalpsychologie KW - gtt KW - Psycholinguistik KW - swd KW - Electronic books. -- local KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index; Language structure and the significance of recursion -- Semantics : the concept of meaning -- Deixis : the interface between language and social interaction -- Conversational analysis and accountability in everyday talk -- Processes and procedures in conversational interaction -- Power relations in language -- Sign-systems and social semiotics -- The role of the reader in text interpretation -- Writing and the construction of narrative text -- Postmodern psychology and language : discourse analysis and social psychology; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - 'Psychology of Language' examines both the formal/structural aspects of linguistics and psycholinguistics and the concerns of sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and social semiotics. Author Michael A. Forrester discusses three levels of communication: thinking - the cognitive processes of self-communication; talk - with an emphasis on everyday conversational behaviour; text - including the study of reading and writing. Within these areas, Forrester introduces a wide range of subjects, from language structure, semantics, and deixis to conversation, power relations in language, interpretation, and postmodern psychology UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=292294 ER -