A CASE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CASES -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PREFACE -- Psycholinguistics, Hermeneutics, and Cognitive Science -- INTRODUCTION -- ON MAINSTREAM PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND COGNITIVESCIENCE -- ON CRITIQUE OF MAINSTREAM MODELS OF HUMAN COGNITIONAND COMMUNICATION AND CURRENT SEARCH FORALTERNATIVE PARADIGMS -- ON REPRESENTATIONAL-COMPUTATIONAL VERSUSHERMENEUTICALLYBASED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- REFERENCES -- Language and Modes of Thought -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS -- UNDERSTANDING CLASS INCLUSIONS -- Network Explanation -- Explanation by Feature Comparison -- Distinction Between Word Comprehension and Verification -- Pictures in Verifying Class Inclusions -- UNDERSTANDING PROPERTY PREDICATIONS AND IMAGERY -- The General Approach -- Property Predications Based on Visual Images -- Sentence-Picture Verification: A Second Look -- UNDERSTANDING ACTIONS -- Action-Related Versus Feature-Based Knowledge -- Action-Related Knowledge: Some Empirical Findings -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Remarks on the Models of Language Comprehension Based on Research on Text Reading Processes -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ASSUMPTIONS OF AN INTERACTIVE MODEL -- THE ASSUMPTIONS OF A MODULAR MODEL -- RESULTS OF OUR RESEARCH PROJECT RELATED TO TOE MODULARITY-INTERACTIVITY CONTROVERSY -- Procedure -- Subjects -- Material -- Discussion -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Language Proficiency: Towards a Definition -- INTRODUCTION -- Beyond Conversation -- A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONCEPTION OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY -- Testing the Predictions of a Multidimensional Model -- Predictions -- TESTING THE PREDICTIONS -- Samples -- The Test Battery -- SOME RESULTS -- Definitions -- Picture Descriptions -- Talk Show -- Cross-Task Relationships -- Knowledge Versus Skill in Explaining Results -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- The Bilingual Child -- INTRODUCTION.

THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONTEXT -- CODE-SHIFTINGAND CODE-MIXING -- INTERDEPENDENCE OF LINGUISTIC ACQUISITION -- MAIN LANGUAGE AND INNER LANGUAGE -- DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF LANGUAGES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Regulatory Processes in the MessagesAddressed to a Peer by 5-to-7-Year-old Childrenin a Referential Communication Task -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENTIAL COMMUNICATION -- EXPERIMENTAL DATA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Applied Psycholinguistics and the Second Language Classroom -- INTRODUCTION -- SOME TERMINOLOGICAL MATTERS -- Psycholinguistics Versus Applied Psycholinguistics -- Learning Versus Acquisition -- Method Versus Approach -- Competence Versus Proficiency -- Unimodality Versus Bimodality -- SOME HISTORICAL ISSUES -- Methods and Approaches in Historical Perspective -- The Advent of Applied Psycholinguistics -- TRANSLATING THEORY INTO WORKING PRINCIPLES -- Modal Focusing -- Contextualization -- Creativity -- Personalization -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Nonverbal Components of Communication and the Field of Applied Psycholinguistics -- INTRODUCTION -- THE FIELD OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS -- THE INTERACTION OF VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMPONENTS IN ORAL COMMUNICATION -- THE ANALYSIS OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- THE ANALYSIS OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION IN APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- Word Order and Discursive Coherence in L2 -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DATA -- Representativity of the Data -- FRENCH AS THE TARGET LANGUAGE -- Linguistic Repertoire -- Basic Utterance Schemes -- Remarks on the Acquisition of the Patterns -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Language Education of Handicapped Children -- INTRODUCTION -- A WORKING MODEL OF LANGUAGE SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ITS UNDERLYING PARADIGM -- THE HISTORICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LSE PROJECT -- Project's Objectives.

The Subjects -- Research Methodology -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.