In recent years there has been a converging trend in the study of pragmatics, grammar,
language acquisition and neurolinguistics which sees as secondary epiphenomena a wide …

The neuropsychological bases of communication are reviewed, with emphasis upon
spontaneous communication as forming an emotional basis for the communication process …

This book makes the case that the relatively new field of pragmatics has an inherently
multidisciplinary nature, with strong relationships with other fields of study including, among …

What makes human communication exceptional is the ability to grasp speaker's intentions
beyond what is said verbally. How the brain processes communicative functions is one of …

Linguistics can sometimes be a technical discipline, with a reality and a vocabulary all its
own. For this reason, psychologists have often waited for linguists to tell them what language …

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several
important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought …

The concept of theory of mind, a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five
years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics …

When in the mid‐1980s pragmatics (roughly, the study of the use of language in human
communication) met cognitive science (the study of human mental abilities and processes …

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart. First
and foremost is the relationship between its two parent disciplines, psychology and …