A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology offers a comprehensive overview of the development of cognitive anthropology from its inception to the present day and presents recent findings in the areas of theory, methodology, and field research in twenty-nine key essays by leading scholars.
In this volume, leading cognitive linguists and contributors from related fields discuss and illustrate the central theoretical and methodological tenets of cognitive linguistics.
A major, thoughtful study, applying new and serious interpretative and critical perspectives to a central range of Old English poetry. Professor John Hines, Cardiff University Cognitive approaches to literature offernew and exciting ways of interpreting literature and mentalities, by bringing ideas and methodologies from Cognitive Science into the analysis of literature and culture. While these approaches are of particular value in relation to understanding the texts of remote societies, they have to date made very little impact on Anglo-Saxon Studies.
Applied Psychology for Teachers: A Behavioral Cognitive Approach
Reader's review: The only book I know of that teaches the science of instruction in a way that teachers can use. There are reasons why students don't learn and oftentimes it's because of how material is sequenced and presented. This book helps teachers learn how to design lessons to maximize student learning. A classic but masterful!
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader (Advances in Cognitive Linguistics)
Cognitive Linguistics is the most rapidly expanding school in modern Linguistics. It aims to create a scientific approach to the study of language, incorporating the tools of philosophy, neuroscience and computer science. Cognitive approaches to language were initially based on philosophical thinking about the mind, but more recent work emphasizes the importance of convergent evidence from a broad empirical and methodological base.