psycholinguistics

Explains the reading process and provides guidance for language arts teachers, showing how to assess and help students achieve.

Explores the cultures and conflicts around swear words and vulgar language. Discusses the evolution of offensive language, labels and censorship, and how brains process different types of language.

Studies the game of language and discusses how language affects emotions, why men and women speak different languages, what different types of word-play have in common, and other related topics.

Argues that the words one says can have a significant effect on one's health and well-being, and explains techniques for fighting depression, anxiety, anger, and perfectionism.

Examines how human language evolved, and argues that the use of language by humans was the driving force behind their development of superior cognitive abilities.

Hal Urban offers simple and immediate ways for using language to change our lives and those of others.