Joseph H. Danks - Böcker

With the accelerating emergence of global markets, communication among people speaking several different languages becomes crucial. Highly developed cognitive skills in two languages are required to achieve the quality of translation and interpretation necessary at all levels of business, government, and academia. Tightly edited and authoritative, Cognitive Processes in Translation and Interpreting applies some of the concepts and methods of cognitive science to the practical world of translation and focuses on the relationship between translation theory, translation research, and translation practice. The combined expertise of the contributing authors provides the reader with an interdisciplinary approach and makes the book ideal for the growing audience of translation scholars, as well as scholars, researchers, and advanced students in psychology, linguistics, and related fields.

This text brings together psychologists studying cognitive skill in animal and human subjects, connectionist theorists, and neuroscientists who have a common interest in understanding function and dysfunction in the realm of complex cognitive behaviour. In the volume, discussion focuses on behavioural, cognitive, psychobiological, and computational approaches to understanding the integration of ongoing behaviour, with particular attention to models of timing and the organization of sequential behaviour.

How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication?First published in 1975, this book is considered one the best of the early books in this field. The task of psycholinguistics is to discover how people produce and comprehend speech. This encompasses virtually all aspects of psychology, including perceptual, conceptual, and social processes. The authors tried to capture the flavour of this approach to the psychology of language by describing the major contemporary issues, problems, and phenomena, of the time, being dealt with in laboratories and in field studies, and by trying to make sense of the data they had. Experimental Psycholinguistics: An Introduction does not try to deal exhaustively with any one issue in linguistics or in psychology. Rather it tries to integrate the authors’ knowledge of language and language behaviour so that someone entering the field has an intelligible framework with which to start.

Animal Cognition and Sequential Behavior: Behavioral, Biological, and Computational Perspectives brings together psychologists studying cognitive skill in animal and human subjects, connectionist theorists, and neuroscientists who have a common interest in understanding function and dysfunction in the realm of complex cognitive behavior. In this volume, discussion focuses on behavioral, cognitive, psychobiological, and computational approaches to understanding the integration of ongoing behavior, with particular attention to models of timing and the organization of sequential behavior.