• Becoming Fluent
• Getting Through
• Changing Minds
• Irony and Sarcasm

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Published by MIT Press in August 2015

Available as an audiobook from Blackstone Audio

Endorsements

There are many books about language learning in general, but it's great to finally see this scientifically sound account of second language acquisition. I was constantly nodding my head at things that I know to be true as an experienced language learner and coach to language learners, explained in a no-nonsense way drawing on many valid sources. Recommended for people who want to know the facts about adult foreign language acquisition.

• Benny Lewis, international best-selling author of Fluent in 3 Months

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"Becoming Fluent" is written by cognitive psychologists who lucidly demonstrate how adults can successfully learn a foreign language by utilizing strategies based on reliable cognitive science and educational psychology research. The reader will understand how and why he or she can master a new language―an insight unrealized in previous texts.

• Timothy Jay, Professor of Psychology, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and author of The Psychology of Language and Why We Curse

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This is a one-of-a-kind book that will give adult language learners the confidence they need to start or continue studying a foreign language. Engagingly written chapters draw on the authors' personal experiences and findings from cognitive science to illustrate why language learners experience problems and explain what they can do to overcome them.

• Susan R. Fussell, Professor, Department of Communication and Department of Information Science, Cornell University, and editor of The Verbal Communication of Emotions​​

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Becoming Fluent is also available in other languages:

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Published by MIT Press in August 2017

Endorsements

What a pleasure and surprise to read this wonderfully accessible volume on cross-cultural language use! The fact is that in this increasingly globalized and transnational world, nothing could be more important than knowing―more than what to say and when―what NOT to say and why not. The authors write about timely issues from the perspectives of their own cross-cultural and cross-linguistic lived histories.

• Diana Boxer, Professor and Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Department of Linguistics, University of Florida; author of The Lost Art of the Good Schmooze

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Kreuz and Roberts provide a thoughtful and engaging introduction to the challenges of interaction across language barriers, packed with insights that will be valuable to all who find themselves talking at times to people from other linguistic communities.

• Susan Fussell, Professor, Cornell University; editor of The Verbal Communication of Emotions

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Published by MIT Press in October 2019

Available as an audiobook from Tantor Audio

Named as one one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2020

Endorsements

"Changing Minds" provides a clear understanding of the connection between aging and language. Most importantly, it provides sets of practices that can help you harness the power of language to live longer and better.

• Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest

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Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts have done it again—and made it look easy! Their new book, "Changing Minds," is a superbly written and highly accessible overview of a neglected topic, namely, how aging affects a person's ability to communicate through language. Anyone who is getting older or who interacts with anyone who is getting older—and, of course, this is everyone—should read this fun and informative book.

• John Kounios, Professor of Psychology, Drexel University; coauthor of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain

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From the first page, I found myself reading this book with the same care and enthusiasm as I would a novel. It is a well-researched, well-crafted, and utterly fascinating exploration into how we use words and how language becomes us as we age. It goes beyond the structure of language and language acquisition and change and instead gives a rich cultural context necessary to appreciate the complexity of language.

• Kate de Medeiros, O'Toole Family Professor, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Ohio

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Chinese translation

A translation in simplified Chinese will be published during the second half  of 2021 by ​Shanghai Educational Publishing House.
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Korean translation

A Korean translation will be published in January 2023 by Gwanju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) Press.

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Published by MIT Press in February 2020

Available as an audiobook from Gildan Media

Irony and Sarcasm was released as part of MIT Press' Essential Knowledge Series. The books in the series are "concise, beautifully produced books on topics of current interest."

Reviews

​An enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of irony and sarcasm.

• Library Journal Reviews, August 2020

Kreuz incorporates voices as diverse as Sophocles, Cicero, O. Henry, Henry Watson Fowler, David Foster Wallace, George Carlin, and Alanis Morissette. Kreuz builds out the basics of metaphor and speech act theory with current research on the identification of sarcasm, the sarcastic tone of voice, sentiment analysis, and memes. Kreuz’s engaging style makes the exposition easy to follow despite the slipperiness of the titular concepts, and in the endmatter he includes a useful glossary and suggestions for further reading. Billed as a “biography of two troublesome words,” this is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in language, rhetoric, and cultural studies.

• E. L. Battistella, Choice Connect, March 2021

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Japanese translation

A Japanese translation will be published in April 2022 by Newton Press.