Definition and Scopo of Psycholinguistics

Definition and Scopo of Psycholinguistics

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  The Definition andScope of Psycholinguistics Week 1 Psycholinguistics_P 11/10/2014 BI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah
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  Language as aMeans of Communication Linguistics Psycholinguistics components process Language Speaker Message Listener Information encodes decodes Psycholinguistics_PB 11/10/2014 I UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah
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  Linguistics • Object:language Psycholinguistics • Object: speech process The structural components of a Psycholinguistics_PB 11/10/2014 I UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah language Language as a process
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  Origin of theterm The term psycholinguistics was coined in 1936 by Jacob Robert Kantor in his book An Objective Psychology of Grammar and started being used among his team at Indiana University, But its use finally became frequent thanks to the 1946 article "Language and psycholinguistics: a review", by his student Nicholas Pronko, where it was used for the first time to talk about an interdisciplinary science "that could be coherent", as well as in the title of Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems, a 1954 book by Charles E. Osgood and Thomas A. Sebeok.[ 11/10/2014 Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah
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  11/10/2014 Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms.Siti Mahripah Definitions •It investigates the interrelation of language and mind in processing and producing utterances and in language acquisition. (Hartley, 1982) •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 behaviour, as well as the psychological mechanism responsible for them (Langaker, 1973)
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  Definitions (Cont.) •Itis concerned in the broadest sense with relation between messages and the characteristics of the human individuals who select and interpret them (Diebold, 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) 11/10/2014 Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah
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  Definitions (Cont.) •It is the study of language behavior : How real (rather than ideal) people learn and use language to communicate ideas. It asks questions such as: 1. How is language produced, perceived, comprehended, and remembered? 2. How is it used for different communicative purposes? 3. How is it acquired? 4. How does it go wrong? How is it represented in the mind? 11/10/2014 Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah
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  Based on thedefinitions, here are some views on psycholinguistics: 1. Psycholinguistics deals with language and mind 2. Psycholinguistics is directly related to the process of encoding and decoding of the 11/10/2014 Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah code (language) 3. Psycholinguistics is an approach 4. Psycholinguistics investigates language, language use, and language change 5. Psycholinguistics discusses processes which are going on in the speaker and hearer’s minds 6. Psycholinguistics focuses in the discussion of language acquisition and linguistic behaviour
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  Sub-disciplines within Psycholinguistics • Theoretical psycholinguistics  language theories related to human mental processes in using language (phonological, diction, syntax, discourse and intonation arrangement) • Developmental psycholinguistics  the process of language acquisition (both L1 & L2) 11/10/2014 Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah • Social psycholinguistics  the social aspects of language, that language is a string of thought and insights
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  Cont. • Educationalpsycholinguistics  the educational aspects in formal education: the role of language in the teaching of reading, language proficiency 11/10/2014 Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah • Neuro-psycholinguistics  the relation between language and the brain: what happens to language input and how output is programmed and formed inside the brain • Experimental psycholinguistics  the act and effect of using language • Applied psycholinguistics  the application of all above subfields into other subjects
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  • how languageis acquired and produced by users • how brain works on language • language acquisition • the difference between children language acquisition and 11/10/2014 Scope Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah language learning • linguistic interference • language development • the role of motivation in foreign language learning
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  11/10/2014 The End Thank you Psycholinguistics_PBI UNY_Ms. Siti Mahripah