Handbook Of Psycholinguistics PDF Download

The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world and especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind."-Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language. This book is a long-awaited chance for me to share my personal and professional view of language as an all-encompassing phenomenon in human lives. I have always been incredibly fascinated with the capacity language possesses. I started learning English when I was 4 years of age. This was a very interesting operation for every child I imagine. For me it was life changing. I felt very empowered and drawn into this new world. Later in my life, I decided language studies are my vocation and from that point on I have never stopped examining language and linking it to the matrix of our consciousness and desires. It looks like this will be a life endeavor, but there is nothing else I would rather do! Since the beginning of my career, I have always identified myself of a descriptivist, simply because it fitted my professional interest better. I was eager to observe and record the language as I hear it and see it and allow it to take the shape that it's supposed to. The discipline of psycholinguistics seemed to be able to satisfy my linguistic appetite in terms of answering all of the questions I had throughout the years. Psycholinguistics allows an inner view of the intricate mechanism of language acquisition, comprehension, and production. It also provides an explanation on a more abstract level such as language as a reflection of a psychological and emotional state. It was compelling to me to try to find predictability between the psychological domain and the language domain, the result of this search is the book you are holding in your hands. I hope to provide food for thought to my readers and to encourage creative thinking regarding one of the most paramount foundations of our lives-language! Book jacket.