英语专业 词汇学-CHAPTER 6.ppt

03-08-08 Jianbin Cui: A Study On Modern English Linguistics 6.0 Introduction: Language Processing in Mind 6.0 Introduction: Language Processing in Mind 6.0 Introduction: Language Processing in Mind Questions: 1. Why do we study Language? 2. What is language? 3. What is mind? 4. What are the relationship between Language and mind? 6.1 Language and Mind Language is a mirror of the mind in a deep and significant sense. It is a product of human intelligence, created anew in each individual by operations that lie far beyond the reach of will or consciousness. (Chomsky, Reflections on Language, 1975) The study of “Language and mind” aims to model the workings of the mind in relation to Languages. 6.1 Language and Mind This accounts for the high degree of controversy that surrounds almost all areas of the subject. The label most usually given to the study of “Language and mind” is psycholinguistics, a term which is often perceived as being trendy. 6.2 Psycholinguistics PSYCHOLINGUISTICS “proper” can perhaps be glossed as the storage, comprehension, production and acquisition of Language in any medium (spoken or written) PSYCHOLINGUISTICS is concerned primarily with investigating the psychological reality of linguistic structures. Less modestly, it sometimes also produces findings, which make their own mark on linguistic research, leading to the modification of theoretical ideas. 6.2 Psycholinguistics As psychology, in its modern guise, uses and experimental methodology, it also follows that such behavioral manifestations will be studied under experimental conditions, and it is reasonable to see the last thirty years or so of psycholinguistics in terms of the construction of ingenious laboratory techniques for pursuing this goal. 6.2 Psycholinguistics It is perhaps useful to distinguish psycholinguistics from the PSYCHOLOGY OF Language, which deals with more general topics such as the extent to which Language shapes thought, and from the PSYCHOLOGY OF