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Words and Minds How We Use Language to Think Together

Paperback • 2000 • English • 1. edition

Words and Minds How We Use Language to Think Together

By Neil Mercer

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Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done. Examining everyday language and drawing on a wide range of research, but always with a light style, Neil Mercer provides a unified account of the relationship between thought and language. Mercer analyses real-life examples of language being used effectively, or otherwise, in many different settings, including workplaces and schools, the home, the internet and the court...Show more

Philosophy of language
Sociolinguistics
Literacy

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ISBN

9780415224765

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Words and Minds How We Use Language to Think Together

Format

Paperback

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