The Hidden Side of Babel: Unveiling Cognition, Intelligence and Sense

The Hidden Side of Babel: Unveiling Cognition, Intelligence and Sense

by Laura E. Bertone

Preface by Juan Seguí

WINNER - S. I. Hayakawa Book Prize 2009 This book offers a useful guide not only for interpreters wishing to reflect on their own activity but also for those interested in cognitive matters or curious about language functioning, discourse analysis and emotion processing. With a preface by Juan Seguí, one of the founders of cognitive psycholinguistics, in whose honor Ferrand and Grainger published Psycholinguistique Cognitive, The Hidden Side of Babel aims at giving a wider picture than the one offered by the author in her first book on the same subject, about which it was said:

It comes as a wonderful gift from the South. Ten years of thoughtful reflections contained in short, limpid and substantial chapters, written without grand-standing jargon, in sharp contrast to so many others …

Evolucion Publishing Division, 2006. 464 pg. Soft paperbound, French flaps, color cover, extensive black & white illustrations. ISBN 978-987-21049-1-3.