Classic Edition The psychology of language and communication is a vast topic – far wider than the scope of conventional texts on psycholinguistics. While we have made no attempt in writing the present book to be encyclopaedic, we have tried to be rather more broad-ranging than usual. The mainstream concerns of psycholinguistics – speech production, speech perception and comprehension, language acquisition, the psychological reality of linguistic theories, etc. – all receive due coverage, but they are interspersed with treatments of gestural and facial communication, conversational management, social class influences on language, animal communication,...