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Alcohol and Sexual Violence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): David DiLillo, Sarah J. Gervais, Dennis E. McChargue Alcohol and Sexual Violence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
David DiLillo, Sarah J. Gervais, Dennis E. McChargue
R3,665 Discovery Miles 36 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a chronology of the 68th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, which is focused on contemporary research knowledge about sexual violence and alcohol use. This book is more specific to dating and intimate partner sexual violence in young adult populations. The target audience is researchers, prevention agencies and policymakers within academia and military settings.  Alcohol use has long been recognized as a major contributor to sexual assault, with an estimated 50% of sexual assaults in the U.S. involving drinking by the victim, perpetrator, or both. Beyond the usual harmful effects, alcohol-involved assaults are associated with unique sequelae for female victims, including increased self-blame, stigma, and greater alcohol use to cope. Moreover, heavier drinking on the part of the perpetrator is associated with more serious incidents of assault (e.g., involving physical force) that result in more severe outcomes for victims. The purpose of this Symposium on Motivation is to bring together a group of experts in the areas of alcohol and sexual aggression to articulate the causes, consequences, and mechanisms of alcohol-involved sexual assault. Speakers will talk about classic and contemporary research and theories on these issues using cutting-edge approaches (e.g., virtual reality, neuroscience, laboratory-based alcohol administration) from a variety of perspectives (perpetrators, victims, bystanders).

Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): F. Callard, D. Fitzgerald Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
F. Callard, D. Fitzgerald
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.

Functions in Mind - A Theory of Intentional Content (Hardcover): Carolyn Price Functions in Mind - A Theory of Intentional Content (Hardcover)
Carolyn Price
R1,702 Discovery Miles 17 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Carolyn Price investigates what it means to say that mental states -- thoughts, wishes, perceptual experiences, and so on -- are about things in the world. Her answer turns on the idea that we are endowed with mechanisms whose function is to produce states that carry certain kinds of information about the world. Functions in Mind is an adventurous contribution to the project of bringing together philosophy and biology in order to understand the mind as part of the natural world.

Moralistics and Psychomoralistics - A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition (Hardcover): Graham Wood Moralistics and Psychomoralistics - A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition (Hardcover)
Graham Wood
R1,459 Discovery Miles 14 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book brings together three distinct research programmes in moral psychology - Moral Foundations Theory, Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange, and the Linguistic Analogy in Moral Psychology - and shows that they can be combined to create a unified cognitive science of moral intuition. The book assumes evolution has furnished the human mind with two types of judgement: intuitive and deliberative. Focusing on moral intuitions (understood as moral judgments that were not arrived at via a process of conscious deliberation), the book explores the origins of these intuitions, examines how they are produced, and explains why the moral intuitions of different humans differ. Providing a unique synthesis of three separate established fields, this book presents a new research program that will further our understanding of the various different intuitive moral judgements at the heart of some of the moral tensions within human society.

A Comprehensive Guide to Safety and Aging - Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Security (Paperback): Barry S. Eckert, Robert Wolf, Amy... A Comprehensive Guide to Safety and Aging - Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Security (Paperback)
Barry S. Eckert, Robert Wolf, Amy Ehrlich
R2,294 Discovery Miles 22 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text covers safety topics related to aging. Featuring a toolkit including checklists and workbook elements to outline what tasks need to be conducted, and in what order, the book aims to identify potential risks and avoid potential pitfalls. It discusses fire safety, food safety, occupational safety, personal emergency response systems (PERS), fall detection devices, remote patient monitoring devices, electronic medication ordering and dispensing, home-based activity monitoring, legal safety tools, medical safety concerns, and tools, falls prevention and vertigo. The text will appeal to professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, occupational health, and safety.

The Attentional Shaping of Perceptual Experience - An Investigation into Attention and Cognitive Penetrability (Hardcover, 1st... The Attentional Shaping of Perceptual Experience - An Investigation into Attention and Cognitive Penetrability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Francesco Marchi
R2,427 Discovery Miles 24 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This monograph presents a clear account of when and how attentional processes can shape perceptual experience. This argument is based on the prediction-error minimization model of the mind. The author believes that the topic of attention should take a more central role in the debate about the influence of cognition on perception. Inside, he shows how this can be possible. The hypothesis that cognition may shape perceptual experience has been traditionally labeled as the cognitive penetrability of perceptual experience. Cognitive penetrability is relevant for several debates in philosophy and cognitive science. It tackles the possibility of gathering genuine knowledge on the basis of perceptual information about the world delivered by sensory channels. The problem, the author notes, is that if our previously acquired belief can shape current perceptual experiences, such experiences cannot serve as an adequate source of justification in retaining those beliefs or even forming new ones. He argues that cognitive penetration may sometimes happen through attentional processes, but that its occurrence need not undermine perceptual justification. The book provides an overview of the cognitive penetrability debate. The author discusses evidence that supports the occurrence of this phenomenon. Overall, this investigation offers readers a philosophical discussion of attention based on the biased-competition theory. It argues that attention is a property of mental representations that emerges from a metacognitive competition process.

Creative Play-Based DBT Activities for Children and Their Caregivers (Hardcover): Kellie Giorgio Camelford, Krystal Vaughn,... Creative Play-Based DBT Activities for Children and Their Caregivers (Hardcover)
Kellie Giorgio Camelford, Krystal Vaughn, Erin Dugan
R1,790 Discovery Miles 17 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Children feel emotions in many ways. At times the intensity of children's emotions may be create difficulties at school, home, and social settings, and obstruct children's relationships with others in their lives. Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) has been proven as an evidencedbased intervention for teenagers and adults with various mental health diagnoses that focus on mindfulness, interpersonal relationships, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation. This helpful workbook will translate DBT principles through play therapy informed activities for children and their parents since children learn best through play. Supportive activities and techniques for use in the therapy room and at home with children are provided to assist children in managing their emotions and strengthen their relationships. Children need mediums to express themselves in order to channel their internal conflicts when posed with varying factors which contribute to a child's inability to conceptualize their world. Blending the facilitative powers of DBT and play therapy will allow children to utilize the needed tools and techniques to process their internal conflicts. DBT techniques such as mindfulness, interpersonal reflective, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance, as well as play therapy techniques will be combined. Utilizing these skills while combining the therapeutic powers of play will allow children to play out these presenting challenges to better understand their world and the contributing factors which lead to their dysregulation and inability to cognitively process that which they cannot verbalize due to their limited cognitive ability.

Time and Memory - Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (Paperback): Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack Time and Memory - Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (Paperback)
Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack
R1,537 Discovery Miles 15 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Series blurb: This series presents the fruits of a joint philosophy and psychology research project whose aim is to advance understanding of the nature of consciousness and self-consciousness by integrating philosophical work with experimental and theoretical work in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, and neuropsychology.

Short copy: Time and Memory throws new light on fundamental aspects of human cognition and consciousness by bringing together, for the first time, psychological and philosophical approaches dealing with the connection between the capacity to represent and think about time, and the capacity to recollect the past. Fifteen specially written essays offer insights into current theories of memory processes and of the mechanisms and cognitive abilities underlying temporal judgements, and draw out key issues concerning the phenomenology and epistemology of memory and its role in our understanding of time.

Time and Memory - Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (Hardcover): Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack Time and Memory - Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (Hardcover)
Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack
R2,103 Discovery Miles 21 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Time and Memory throws new light on fundamental aspects of human cognition and consciousness by bringing together, for the first time, psychological and philosophical approaches dealing with the connection between the capacity to represent and think about time, and the capacity to recollect the past. Fifteen specially written essays offer insights into current theories of memory processes and of the mechanisms and cognitive abilities underlying temporal judgements, and draw out key issues concerning the phenomenology and epistemology of memory and its role in our understanding of time.

Metacognitive Translator Training - Focus on Personal Resources (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Paulina Pietrzak Metacognitive Translator Training - Focus on Personal Resources (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Paulina Pietrzak
R2,648 Discovery Miles 26 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book explores new developments and objectives in translator education, with a focus on metacognitive aspects of both translating and learning to become a translator. The author reports on an exploratory study on translation graduates with particular attention to the effects of metacognitive awareness on their professional development. The data collected show that, despite the growing demand on translation services and advancement of translation technology, there are still a great number of translation graduates who decide not to become professional translators. The findings show a number of reasons why they choose different career paths and discuss the correlations between their self-concept and their professional development, as reflected in their academic performance, career choice, career paths, job satisfaction and perceived success. The book will appeal to teachers, trainers and academics in the field of translation studies, and more specifically translation as a profession and translator competence.

Phonological Knowledge - Conceptual and Empirical Issues (Hardcover): Noel Burton-Roberts, Philip Carr, Gerard Docherty Phonological Knowledge - Conceptual and Empirical Issues (Hardcover)
Noel Burton-Roberts, Philip Carr, Gerard Docherty
R2,420 Discovery Miles 24 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Various contributors address central questions in the foundations of phonology and locate them within their larger linguistic and philosophical context. Phonology is a discipline grounded in observable facts, but like any discipline it rests on conceptual assumptions. This study investigates the nature, status and acquisition of phonological knowledge: it enquires into the conceptual and empirical foundations of phonology, considering the relation of phonology to the theory of language and other capacities of mind The authors address a wide range of interrelated questions, the most central of which is this: is phonological knowledge different from linguistic knowledge in general? They offer responses to this question from a variety of perspectives, each of which has consequences for how phonology and language are conceived. Each also involves a host of further questions concerning the modularity of mind and of language; whether phonology should be included in the language faculty; the nature-convention debate; the content of phonological elements and its relation to phonetic substance; the implications of sign languages for phonology; whether functional and variationist considerat

Appraisal Processes in Emotion - Theory, Methods, Research (Hardcover): K. Scherer, A. Schorr, T. Johnstone Appraisal Processes in Emotion - Theory, Methods, Research (Hardcover)
K. Scherer, A. Schorr, T. Johnstone
R1,926 Discovery Miles 19 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Appraisal theory has become one of the most active aproaches in the domain of emotion psychology. The appraisal process consists of the subjective evaluation that occurs during the individual's encounter with significant events in the environment, thus determining the nature of the emotional reaction and experience. The organism's interpretation of events and situations elicits and differentiates its emotional responses, although the exact processes involved and the limits of the theory are still a matter of debate and are currently the object of active research. This volume is intended to become the primary source of information on appraisal for all those interested in emotion, from beginning graduate students to accomplished researchers in emotion psychology.

Understanding Users - Designing Experience through Layers of Meaning (Hardcover): Andrew Dillon Understanding Users - Designing Experience through Layers of Meaning (Hardcover)
Andrew Dillon
R3,780 Discovery Miles 37 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Grounded in the user-centered design movement, this book offers a broad consideration of how our civilization has evolved its technical infrastructure for human purpose to help us make sense of the contemporary world of information infrastructure and online existence. The author incorporates historical, cultural and aesthetic approaches to situating information and its underlying technologies across time in the collective, lived experiences of humanity. In today's digital information world, user experience is vital to the success of any product or service. Yet as the user population expands to include us all, designing for people who vary in skills, abilities, preferences and backgrounds is challenging. This book provides an integrated understanding of users, and the methods that have evolved to identify usability challenges, that can facilitate cohesive and earlier solutions. The book treats information creation and use as a core human behavior based on acts of representation and recording that humans have always practiced. It suggests that the traditional ways of studying information use, with their origins in the distinct layers of social science theories and models is limiting our understanding of what it means to be an information user and hampers our efforts at being truly user-centric in design. Instead, the book offers a way of integrating the knowledge base to support a richer view of use and users in design education and evaluation. Understanding Users is aimed at those studying or practicing user-centered design and anyone interested in learning how people might be better integrated in the design of new technologies to augment human capabilities and experiences.

Clarifying and Furthering Existential Psychotherapy - Theories, Methods, and Practices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Stefan E.... Clarifying and Furthering Existential Psychotherapy - Theories, Methods, and Practices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Stefan E. Schulenberg
R2,946 Discovery Miles 29 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This exciting volume brings together leading figures across existential psychology in a clear-sighted guide to its current practice and therapeutic possibilities. Its accessible yet scholarly presentation dispels common myths about existential psychotherapy while demonstrating core methods and innovative techniques as compatible with the range of clinicians' theoretical orientations and practical approaches. Chapters review the evidence for its therapeutic value, and provide updates on education, training, and research efforts in the field, both in the US and abroad. Throughout, existential psychotherapy emerges as a vital, flexible, and empirically sound modality in keeping with the current-and future-promotion of psychological well-being. Highlights of the coverage include: Emotion, relationship, and meaning as core existential practice: evidence-based foundations. * Meaning-centered psychotherapy: a Socratic clinical practice. Experience processing as an aspect of existential psychotherapy: life enhancement methodology. Structural Existential Analysis (SEA): a phenomenological method for therapeutic work. Experiencing change: an existential perspective. Creating the World Congress for existential therapy. Clarifying and Furthering Existential Psychotherapy will spark discussion and debate among students, therapists, researchers, and practitioners in existential psychology, existential psychotherapy, and allied fields as well as the interested public. It makes a suitable text for graduate courses in existential therapy, psychological theories, and related subjects.

The Neurocognition of Language (Paperback, New edition): Colin M. Brown, Peter Hagoort The Neurocognition of Language (Paperback, New edition)
Colin M. Brown, Peter Hagoort
R2,025 Discovery Miles 20 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'... an important and captivating book, one that has been long awaited by all researchers interested in language and the brain.' Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999. The Neurocognition of Language brings together experts on human language and the brain to present the first critical overview of the cognitive neuroscience of language, one of the fastest-moving and most exciting areas today. In-depth discussion of the representations and structures of language, as well as of the cognitive architectures which underlie speaking, listening, and reading, will provide a basis for future brain imaging research. In addition, the existing brain imaging literature on word and sentence processing is critically reviewed, as well as contributions from brain lesion data. Finally, the book discusses the prospects and problems of brain imaging techniques for the study of language, presents some of the most recent and promising analytic procedures for relating brain imaging data to the higher cognitive functions, and contains a review of the neuroanatomical structure of Broca's language area. Uniquely interdisciplinary, this book will provide researchers and students in cognitive neuroscience with state-of-the-art reviews of the major language functions, while being of equal interest to researchers in linguistics and language who want to learn about the neural bases of language. It will be an essential purchase for anyone requiring an overview of our current understanding of the relation between language and the brain.

Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Lisa L. M. Welling, Todd K.... Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Lisa L. M. Welling, Todd K. Shackelford
R6,606 Discovery Miles 66 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the continuing impact of evolutionary thinking on social psychology research. This perspective is explored in the larger context of social psychology, which is divisible into several major areas including social cognition, the self, attitudes and attitude change, interpersonal processes, mating and relationships, violence and aggression, health and psychological adjustment, and individual differences. Within these domains, chapters offer evolutionary insights into salient topics such as social identity, prosocial behavior, conformity, feminism, cyberpsychology, and war. Together, these authors make a rigorous argument for the further integration of the two diverse and sometimes conflicting disciplines. Among the topics covered: How social psychology can be more cognitive without being less social. How the self-esteem system functions to resolve important interpersonal dilemmas. Shared interests of social psychology and cultural evolution. The evolution of stereotypes. An adaptive socio-ecological perspective on social competition and bullying. Evolutionary game theory and personality. Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology has much to offer students and faculty in both fields as well as evolutionary scientists outside of psychology. This volume can be used as a primary text in graduate courses and as a supplementary text in various upper-level undergraduate courses.

Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience - New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives (Paperback): Robert Sinnerbrink Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience - New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives (Paperback)
Robert Sinnerbrink
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since the early 1990s, phenomenology and cognitivism have become two of the most influential approaches to film theory. Yet far from being at odds with each other, both approaches offer important insights on our subjective experience of cinema. Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience explores how these two approaches might work together to create a philosophy of film that is both descriptively rich and theoretically productive by addressing the key relationship between cinematic experience, emotions, and ethics.

Language Production (Hardcover): Robert J. Hartsuiker, Kristof Strijkers Language Production (Hardcover)
Robert J. Hartsuiker, Kristof Strijkers
R3,790 Discovery Miles 37 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together the latest research from world-leading academics, this edited volume is an authoritative resource on the psycholinguistic study of language production, exploring longstanding concepts as well as contemporary and emerging theories. Hartsuiker and Strijkers affirm that although language production may seem like a mundane everyday activity, it is in fact a remarkable human accomplishment. This comprehensive text presents an up-to-date overview of the key topics in the field, providing important theoretical and empirical challenges to the traditional and accepted modal view of language production. Each chapter explores in detail a different aspect of language production, covering traditional methods including written and signed production alongside emerging research on joint action production. Emphasising the neurobiological underpinnings of language, chapter authors showcase research that moves from a monologue-only approach to one that that considers production in more ecologically valid circumstances. Written in an accessible and compelling style, Language Production is essential reading for students and researchers of language production and psycholinguistics, as well as anyone that wishes to learn more about the fascinating topic of how humans produce language.

Language Production (Paperback): Robert J. Hartsuiker, Kristof Strijkers Language Production (Paperback)
Robert J. Hartsuiker, Kristof Strijkers
R1,306 Discovery Miles 13 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together the latest research from world-leading academics, this edited volume is an authoritative resource on the psycholinguistic study of language production, exploring longstanding concepts as well as contemporary and emerging theories. Hartsuiker and Strijkers affirm that although language production may seem like a mundane everyday activity, it is in fact a remarkable human accomplishment. This comprehensive text presents an up-to-date overview of the key topics in the field, providing important theoretical and empirical challenges to the traditional and accepted modal view of language production. Each chapter explores in detail a different aspect of language production, covering traditional methods including written and signed production alongside emerging research on joint action production. Emphasising the neurobiological underpinnings of language, chapter authors showcase research that moves from a monologue-only approach to one that that considers production in more ecologically valid circumstances. Written in an accessible and compelling style, Language Production is essential reading for students and researchers of language production and psycholinguistics, as well as anyone that wishes to learn more about the fascinating topic of how humans produce language.

Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): James A Hampton, Yoad Winter Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
James A Hampton, Yoad Winter
R2,002 Discovery Miles 20 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles bring together work by leading scholars and younger researchers in psychology, linguistics and philosophy. An introductory chapter lays out the background on concept composition, a problem that is stimulating much new research in cognitive science. Researchers in this interdisciplinary domain aim to explain how meanings of complex expressions are derived from simple lexical concepts and to show how these meanings connect to concept representations. Traditionally, much of the work on concept composition has been carried out within separate disciplines, where cognitive psychologists have concentrated on concept representations, and linguists and philosophers have focused on the meaning and use of logical operators. This volume demonstrates an important change in this situation, where convergence points between these three disciplines in cognitive science are emerging and are leading to new findings and theoretical insights. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

Social Love and the Critical Potential of People - When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination (Hardcover):... Social Love and the Critical Potential of People - When the Social Reality Challenges the Sociological Imagination (Hardcover)
Silvia Cataldi, Gennaro Iorio
R4,262 Discovery Miles 42 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book unveils the concept of social love as a kind of "Karst River" that flows through the history of sociology, reassessing it as a form criticism by people in everyday life. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this book offers both theoretical and empirical reflections on social love. It shows that love is not only central to the human experience, but that it can also help to interpret and intervene in social problems such as climate change, poverty, xenophobia, and the (post-)Covid crisis, recognizing people as actors in social change. It explores the idea of love as a key element in the promotion of solidarity and recognition in today's plural and unequal societies. Based on empirical research on social love conducted through both qualitative and quantitative methods, especially in Europe and Latin America, this book explores the social dimension of love. Providing overviews on key questions and studies on current issues, the book is essential reference and resource for researchers, students, social workers, and professionals in social sciences, social philosophy, anthropology, social psychology, sociology of emotions and postmodern literature.

Self and Story in Early Childhood - Children's Developing Minds Revealed by Parent-led Research (Hardcover): Hugh Crago Self and Story in Early Childhood - Children's Developing Minds Revealed by Parent-led Research (Hardcover)
Hugh Crago
R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Our children grow up into a world of stories-in books, on screens-but what do they make of the stories we offer them? What do they think and feel as they listen to a parent read a picture-book? What if a story confuses or upsets them? Over the past fifty years, several intelligent, committed mothers undertook the onerous task of recording exactly what their children said and did in response to the stories they shared. Some of their records extended over five years, or even longer. Their research, done without funding or academic supervision, offers us unparalleled insight into children's minds long before they learn to speak-let alone learn to read. In Self and Story in Early Childhood, Hugh Crago draws on his unusual combination of expertise in literary studies, developmental psychology and psychotherapy to re-examine the startling implications of this neglected body of evidence. He highlights how much children can achieve without formal teaching, but with the supportive presence of a trusted adult who will participate with them in the story experience. This book will be of great interest to scholars of developmental psychology, early literacy and narratology, as well as to professionals working with preschoolers. Most of all, it will fascinate parents who themselves share stories with their child.

Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition - Perspectives, Issues, and Findings (Paperback): Xiaofei Lu Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition - Perspectives, Issues, and Findings (Paperback)
Xiaofei Lu
R1,176 Discovery Miles 11 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* Features/Benefits o The first book to comprehensively and systematically review corpus analytic research methods to understand/examine second language acquisition (L2 use, processing, development, and pedagogy). o Discusses recent empirical studies that employ these techniques to apply corpus linguistic methods across diverse areas of SLA and theoretical orientations, and highlights the contributions that corpus methods have made to the studies' results. o Discusses how new and emerging corpus linguistic methods can be fruitfully used in future SLA research. * Demand/Audience o The field of Second Language Acquisition has had a marked increase in studies on and interest in corpus- and usage-based approaches. This book serves that audience in both courses and personal research use with a comprehensive, up-to-date, how-to volume on corpus-based research methodology. o A unique resource for students and researchers of SLA and applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, second language pedagogy, bi- and multilingualism, and language teaching. * Competition o No real competition. Extant books in this area fail to cover corpus linguistics methods for SLA comprehensively as this book does; they either report findings from a specific research study or focus on a single theoretical perspective/particular area of SLA. o Many of the books in this area are edited volumes, which lack the unified authoritative voice of a single author that this book will have.

Copyright, Data and Creativity in the Digital Age - A Journey through Feist (Paperback): Julian Warner Copyright, Data and Creativity in the Digital Age - A Journey through Feist (Paperback)
Julian Warner
R1,243 Discovery Miles 12 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v. Rural (1991) required that databases must have a minimal degree of creativity for copyright. The judgment was highly significant and the subsequent period is understood as the post-Feist era. It has been globally influential. However, the decision is extremely complex and remains unsatisfactorily interpreted. In particular, it has been impossible to illuminate the creativity requirement. The book gives an account of the decision's conceptual structure, focusing on its full delineation of the opposite to creativity. In a radical and unprecedented innovation, it is correlated with an automatic computational process. Creativity itself is understood as non-computational or directly human activity concerned with meaning. Determining the presence of creativity is reduced to a four-stage test. This work then has acute practical current relevance to property in data in the digital age; it will also be of theoretical interest to, and is aimed at, researchers in, practitioners, and students of intellectual property worldwide.

The Psychological Basis of Moral Judgments - Philosophical and Empirical Approaches to Moral Relativism (Paperback): John Park The Psychological Basis of Moral Judgments - Philosophical and Empirical Approaches to Moral Relativism (Paperback)
John Park
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume examines the psychological basis of moral judgments and asks what theories of concepts apply to moral concepts. By combining philosophical reasoning and empirical insights from the fields of moral psychology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and neuroscience, it considers what mental states not only influence, but also constitute our moral concepts and judgments. On this basis, Park proposes a novel pluralistic theory of moral concepts which includes three different cognitive structures and emotions. Thus, our moral judgments are shown to be a hybrid that express both cognitive and conative states. In part through analysis of new empirical data on moral semantic intuitions, gathered via cross-cultural experimental research, Park reveals that the referents of individuals' moral judgments and concepts vary across time, contexts, and groups. On this basis, he contends for moral relativism, where moral judgments cannot be universally true across time and location but only relative to groups. This powerfully argued text will be of interest to researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in cognitive science, moral theory, philosophy of psychology, and moral psychology more broadly. Those interested in ethics, applied social psychology, and moral development will also benefit from the volume.

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