This book examines how digitally networked communication technologies create spaces of belonging for people of refugee and migrant backgrounds in resettlement contexts, focusing on Australia.
Consciousness is an intriguing mystery, of which standard accounts all have well-known difficulties. This book develops a novel account of how consciousness is constituted by our neural structure that avoids these difficulties.
An introductory text on the neuroscience of language. This remarkably accessible book introduces all fundamental concepts from production to comprehension and is suitable for readers with no prior knowledge of the subject.
This book investigates how word meanings are represented and processed in our brains, linking perception, action, emotion, and abstract cognition. Offering a comprehensive overview of the field, it serves as a valuable resource for students, professors, and researchers spanning psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and anthropology.
This book investigates how word meanings are represented and processed in our brains, linking perception, action, emotion, and abstract cognition. Offering a comprehensive overview of the field, it serves as a valuable resource for students, professors, and researchers spanning psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and anthropology.
New Approaches to Language and Identity in Contexts of Migration and Diaspora draws together expertise and contemporary research findings in respect of language and identity in migrant and diasporic contexts throughout the world.
This volume examines change in the English language by considering the transmission of English through dictionaries and grammars down to the digital means found today. The chapters investigate various issues in language change, what role internal and external factors played throughout history and the importance of prescriptivism.
This volume focuses on the vernacular forms of English found at various locations both in Britain and Ireland, as well as continental Europe. The goal of these chapters is to provide histories of those dialects not necessarily leading to standard English, largely within the framework of language variation and change.