On the evolving connections between psychology and linguistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24221053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norman Segalowitz (0000-0002-3719-0640) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Pages | 3-22 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-1905 • E-ISSN: 1471-6356 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0267190501000010 |
| OpenAlex | W2119926991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
Over four decades ago the so-called Chomskyan revolution appeared to lay the foundation for a promising new partnership between linguistics and psychology. Many have now concluded, however, that the hopes originally expressed for this partnership were not realized. This chapter is about what went wrong and where we might go from here. The discussion first identifies three reasons why initial efforts at partnership may have been inherently flawed — divergent criteria for choosing among competing theories, different ideas about what was to be explained, and different approaches to questions about biology and environment. I then argue that recent developments — especially in associative learning theory, in cognitive neuroscience, and in linguistic theory — may provide a more solid basis for partnership. Next, the chapter describes two possible ways that bridges between the disciplines might develop. One draws on recent psychological research on attention focusing and on linguistic research concerning language constructions. The other draws on the concept of affordances and perspective taking. The chapter concludes that an enduring partnership between linguistics and psychology may indeed now be possible and that there may be a special role for applied linguistics in this new development.
affordances · Applied linguistics · associative learning theory · attentional focus · biology and environment · language construction · linguistic theory · perspective taking · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Categorization, perception, and language · Cognitive Neuroscience · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Doing Psycholinguistics in Applied Linguistics
Methodology in Bi- and Multilingual Studies
Enablements and constraints
Emergent multicompetence at the primary level
Making sense of the internet of things
Foreign language perceptual curiosity
Development of Speed and Accuracy in Pragmatic Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language
Affordances and the diversity of multilingualism
Cognition, Language Contact, and the Development of Pragmatic Comprehension in a Study-Abroad Context
Enlanguaged affordances in social practices
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |