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Elaine Chaika
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in Milford, MA, The United States
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Language: The Social Mirror
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Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherapy: A Guide for Therapists
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Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Psychotherapy (Health, Mind & Body)
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A book for therapists and laypersons interested in figuring out what people really mean by what they say. Written in the same easy style as my Language the Social Mirror books.
Understanding Psychotic Speech:Beyond Freud and Chomsky (Health, Mind & Body)
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Shows how to analyze psychotic speech and why thi has to be done linguistically for valid interpretations. This book made my reputation internationally, and has itself become the reference for later works on this subject. Nobody has ever refuted the major study this is based on, nor the linguistic discourse analyses. I have spoken on this subject as the keynote speaker at a Royal College of Psychiatrists conference in England and the International Conference of Psychiatrists in Madrid, Spain
Language the Social Mirror, 4th ed. (Nonfiction)
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Everything you ever wondered about how we use language in interactions, why we speak with certain accents, how people manipulate us by language, how a society's values are reflected in language
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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“Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.”
― Elaine Chaika
― Elaine Chaika
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
― Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
― Abraham Lincoln
― Abraham Lincoln
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I tried to start a discussion group called Books and eReaders. So far, nobody seems to have found it. eReaders are causing a revolution in the world of books. What are your thoughts about that? Will they encourage more people to read? Or, will they be the end of books? Will people confine their knowledge to whatever they can google? How will eReaders affect literacy as we know it? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this topic.
Already, public libraries purchase eBooks which you can download to your eReader. Amazon said they sold more eBooks last year than physical books. Since Amazon sold 40% of all the books bought in the US last year, these facts are not trivial.
What will happen to publishing houses with the advent of eBooks?
Join the discussion, pro and con. You don't have to own an eReader to contribute, but you should at least have tried to read something on one.
Please, however, don't use this as a platform to advertise the brand of eReader you own. You may want to mention that because not all eReaders have the same capabilities. Kindle, for instance, doesn't allow downloading library books. NOOKcolor lets you see pictures in National Geographic in vivid color.
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