what is psycho-linguistics

1. Introduction to
Psycholinguistics
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2. Definitions ?
 Language is system of arbitrary, vocal symbols that permit all
people in a given culture, or other people who have learned the
system of that culture, to communicate or to interact
(Finocchioro, in Ramelan 1984)
 Psychology is the scientific study of the activities of the
individual in relation to his environment” (Woodworth &
Marquis)
 Linguistics is the science of language and thus is usually defined
as the systematic study of language or, a discipline that describes
all aspects of language and formulate theories as to how language
works. (Yang, 2005)

3. Origin of term
 The term psycholinguistics was introduced by
American psychologist Jacob Robert Kantor in his
book An Objective Psychology of Grammar (1936).
 The term was popularized by one of Kantor's
students, Henry Pronko, in the article "Language
and Psycholinguistics: A Review" (1946).
 The term ‘psycholinguistics’ is a combination of
psychology and linguistics.

4. PSycholinguistics
 “It is the study of the mental mechanisms that make it possible for
people to use language. It is a scientific discipline whose goal is a
coherent theory of the way in which language is produced and
understood." (Alan Garnham, Psycholinguistics: Central Topics.
Psychology Press, 1985)
 “It investigates the interrelation of language and mind in processing
and producing utterances and in language acquisition”. (Hartley,
1982)

5.  “It deals directly with the processes of encoding and decoding as
they relate states of message to states of communicators”
(Osgood and Sebeok, 1983)
 “It is the study of language acquisition and linguistic behavior, as
well as the psychological mechanism responsible for them”
(Langaker, 1973)
 “It is the study of relation between our needs for expression and
communication and the means offered to us by a language
learned in one’s childhood and later.” (Fraisse, 1973)

6.  Psycholinguistics or Linguistics of Psychology
is the study of the psychological and neurological
factors that enable humans to acquire, use and
understand language.

7.  Psycholinguistics Analyses the processes of Codification,
the process of standardizing and developing a norm for a
language.
 How Language is Done
Psycholinguistics study how word meaning, sentence
meaning, and discourse meaning computed and represented in
the mind.

8. References
 Psychoinguistics hand book, Tri Rina Budiwati
 Norduist, Richard. “Psycholinguistics Definition and
Examples.” thoughtCo, Dec.31, 2018,
thoughtco.com/psycholinguistics-1691700

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