Jeffery Donaldson: 2 books

Book cover of Palilalia
by Jeffery Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008

Palilalia is disordered speech. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this lesser known vocal tic is "an involuntary repetition of words, phrases or sentences." Sister to echolalia (repeating what others say), and distant cousin to the more forbidding coprolalia (the involuntary use...
Book cover of Missing Link

Missing Link

The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution

by Jeffery Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor - is always in front of us. In Missing Link, Jeffery Donaldson unites literary criticism and evolutionary and cognitive science to show how metaphor has been with us since the beginning of time as a seed...
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