Product Description: Historically, the social aspects of language use have been considered the domain of social psychology, while the underlying psycholinguistic mechanisms have been the purview of cognitive psychology. Recently, it has become increasingly clear that these two dimensions are highly interrelated: cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and comprehension interact with social psychological factors, such as beliefs about one's interlocutors and politeness norms, and with the dynamics of the conversation itself, to produce shared meaning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Designed to orient readers to what is happening in the fields of literature and aesthetics, this volume collects 40 articles addressing aspects of texts including verb and paragraphing choices; structures that affect inferencing; the role of affect; aspects of the reading of poetry; the expertise o...read more

Product Description: The articles in this special issue grew out of a symposium on nonliteral language that was held at a recent meeting of the American Psychological Society. The symposium's title, "Nonliteral Language: Processing and Use," refers to the two aspects of figuration that frame contemporary research on this topic...read more