More Than Words
How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
$48.50
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
10 June 2025
Summary
“This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how ‘word-work’ shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our best thoughts.” - MARYANNE WOLF, author of Proust and the Squid and Reader Come Home
Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign language. But why do we have this almost magical, special talent? It turns out that while …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593545270 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0593545273 |
| Author: | Maryellen MacDonald |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 515g |
| Dimensions: | 160mm x 235mm |
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Maryellen MacDonald
Maryellen MacDonald is the Donald P. Hayes Professor (emerit) of Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin−Madison. She is a cognitive scientist with a focus on psycholinguistics, the study of how we comprehend, produce, and learn languages. She has researched the impact of language in children, young adults, elderly adults, and patients with Alzheimer’s disease, as well as language production in six different languages. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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