1. The formation of psycholinguistics. A science for the study of language development, understanding and production. Basic terminology
Classification of sciences
24 main branches (e.g. linguistics)
221 branches (e.g. applied linguistics)
1995 sub-branches {applications} (e.g. sociology)
Linguistics can be: 1. theoretical or applied; 2. synchronic (descriptive) or diachronic (historical).
Diachronic linguistics: 1. comparative; 2. history of linguistics (historical); 3. etymology.
Synchronic linguistics: 1. descriptive (phonetics and phonology; grammar; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics) 2. psycholinguistics; 3. sociolinguistics; 4. stylistics and rhetoric; 5. contrastive linguistics; 6. lexicography …
Applied linguistics is an inter- and multi disciplinary science. Interdisciplinary means that it lies b/w 2 science sub-branches. E.g. psychology + linguistics = psycholinguistics. Multidisciplinary means that many sub-branches create a new branch of science.
Theoretical linguistics is a pure.
The notion of psycholinguistics: It is the psychology of the process of using languages. Research in psycholinguistics opens a window to the nature and structure of the human mind.
The individual has language acquisition, which capacity is not language specific. The diachronical aspect is life. With aging an individual creates language dissolution. The synchronic aspects are language comprehension (listening and reading) and language production (speaking and writing). In these cases there is only one language. On the contrary, language pedagogy has translation and interpretation as synchronic aspects. In this case there are 2 languages simultaneously.
Psycholinguistics 1. developmental: language acquisition; second language acquisition (SLA) ↔ language loss; 2. experimental: language comprehension and language production.
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