The reasonable person adapts himself to the world while the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt he world to himse!.” George bernard Shaw

Do speakers of languages think differently? Do the differences in thought stem from the linguistic diferences e or, are the diferences in thought due to cultural Inon-linguisic) infuences?

PSyCholinguistics-a dead disciplne! term coined in 1954 [Osgood] aim: to describe the exact operation of the brain during the production or processing of language psychology PSycho

Language as an interface Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture. but also simpler and easier. Victor hugo

Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Psycholinguistics: study of language acquisItion, Storage, comprehension, and production Neurolinguistics: study of the neural and electrochemical bases of language development and use

Psycholinguistic division of language PCHQ-LINGUISTS Comprehension reading listening words Visual/

Antonymy is a standard technical term used for oppositeness of meaning between lexemes

Linguistic Meaning The meaning of linguistic items. (linguistic item= anything, from word, to a grammatical morpheme or a combination of words). Different from personal/social/ cultural meanings

Linguistic Meaning The meaning of linguistic items. (linguistic item= anything, from word, to a grammatical morpheme or a combination of words). Different from personal/social/ cultural meanings

Hyponymy dog means the collection of all dogs mammal means the collection of all mammals X is hyponym of Y the meaning of is contained in the meaning of Y