language, psuchology, and psycholinguistics

LANGUAGE

Nordquist (2012) : grammar. about.com 

Walt Whitman :  Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Karl Kraus  : Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

And then, Language is primarily an auditory system of symbols. In so far as it is articulated it is also a motor system, but the motor aspect of speech is clearly secondary to the auditory. And language is a tool for communication between human and human, or animal and animal. Every language has their own symbols, sounds and also grammar (e.g. semantic, morphology, syntax, word classes, grammatical categories, etc).

PSYCHOLOGY

Wikipedia.com (2012) : Psychology is the study of the mind, occurring partly via the study of behavior. The word psychology literally means, "the study of the soul.

Mindfocus.com (2012) : Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior with the object of understanding why living beings behave as they do. As almost any science, its discoveries have practical applications. As it is a rather new science, applications are sometimes confused with the science itself.

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Wikipedia.com (2012) : Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language.

Nordquist (2012) : grammar.about.com. The study of the mental aspects of language and speech--a branch of both linguistics and psychology.

REFERENCES

Nordquist , Richard  . 2012. Language term. Available on : http://grammar. about.com /od/il/ g/languageterm.htm. Accessed on: 6^th February 2012.

Wikipedia.com .2012 . Psychology. Available on :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology. Accessed on: 6^th February 2012.

Wikipedia.com .2012 . Psycholinguistics. Available on :  http://www.mindfocus. net/nc00100.html. Accessed on:  6^th February 2012.

Richard Nordquist.2012.  Psycholinguistics. Available on :  http://grammar.about.com /od/ pq/g/psycholinguisticsterm.htm.  Accessed on:  6^th February 2012.