CHAPTER I
THE BASIC
CONCEPTS OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
1. What is Psycholinguistics?
Psycholinguistics = Psychology + Linguistics (Taylor, 1990) The psychology of language (speaking & listening
(means of communication) and their acquisition)
(Clark& Clark,
1977)
psychology
‘the scientific study
of the way
the
human mind works and how
it influences behaviour, or the influence of a particular person's character on their behaviour’
linguistics
‘the systematic study
of
the structure and development of
language in general
or
of particular languages.
General Linguistics is ‘concerned with human language as a universal and recognizable part of human
behaviour and
of
the human faculties,
perhaps one of the most essential to human life as
we
know it, and one
of
the most far-reaching of human
capabilities in relation to the
whole span of mankind’s achievements’ (Robins, 1980)
1. The definition of language
a system of signs (e.g. Speech sounds, hand gestures, letters )
used to communicate messages’
a system of abitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social
group cooperates’
Taylor ‘human language is
an
oral-auditory communication system’.
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