Stories are used extensively for human communication; both the comprehension and
production of oral and written narratives constitute a fundamental part of our experience …

Deficits in pragmatic language ability are common to a number of clinical populations, for
example, right-hemisphere damage (RHD), Autism and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In these …

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when
we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world …

This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, examining patterns
across research from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language …

This book is the outcome of over 25 years of research into neurolinguistic aspects of
bilingualism. It will therefore draw extensively on scattered previously published material …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

This review highlights the importance of right hemisphere language functions for successful
social communication and advances the hypothesis that the core deficit in psychosis is a …

This chapter proposes that a unique mode of semantic processing by the right hemisphere
(RH) underlies many of its contributions to discourse comprehension (reviewed here and in …

In three experiments, healthy young participants listened to stories promoting inferences and
named inference-related test words presented to the right visual field–Left Hemisphere (rvf …

The statement," The Right Hemisphere (RH) processes language"--while not exactly
revolutionary--still provokes vigorous debate. It often elicits the argument that anything the …