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by Maryellen MacDonald (Author)
"This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our best thoughts."
--MARYANNE WOLF, author of Proust and the Squid and Reader Come Home
- how talking helps us set goals and acts as a learning engine
- the link between speech patterns and mental illness
- why conversations in classrooms are crucial
- how talking can amplify the talker's political polarization
- how talking can slow cognitive decline as we age Engaging and illuminating, More Than Words has lessons that have the power to transform education policy, parenting, psychology, and more. It is a sweeping and provocative look at a fundamental human behavior we take for granted.
Author Biography
Maryellen MacDonald is the Donald P. Hayes Professor (emerit) of Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a cognitive scientist with a focus on psycholinguistics, the study of how we comprehend, produce, and learn languages. She has researched the impact of language in children, young adults, elderly adults, and patients with Alzheimer's disease, as well as language production in six different languages. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
