Psychology in Linguistics

                            Psychology

Psychology is a science and applied science that studies the human behavior and mental function scientifically. Practitioners in the field of psychology called psychologists. The psychologists are trying to study the role of mental functions in individual and group behavior, as well as learn more about the physiological and neurobiological processes that underlie behavior.

Did you know that language as an object of study turns out to attract a wide range of experts from various disciplines. Many psychologists are interested to learn the language in depth. However, on the contrary many linguists who also had to study psychology so that his understanding of language as an object of study is getting to be good. It was not surprising because language can indeed be studied psychology and obviously can become a study of linguistics. Therefore, experts from both disciplines and together make the language as an object of study.

Edward Sapir and a scholar of the American Anthropological Linguistics early 20th century has included psychology in the study of language. According to Sapir, psychology can provide a solid foundation for the study of language. Sapir also has tried to examine the relationship of language to mind. The conclusion is that language affects the human mind. Linguistics according to Sapir can make an important contribution to the gestalt psychology and vice versa, gestalt psychology can contribute to linguistics.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Bloomfield, a linguist from the United States are affected by two opposing schools of psychology in analyzing the language. At first, he was heavily influenced by the psychology of mentalism and then switch on the psychology of behaviorism. Due to the influence of mentalism,

Bloomfield found that language is an expression of experience born of emotional pressure is very strong. Due to the strong emotional pressure, eg, the emergence of the sentence appeal.

 

For example:

Ouch, it hurts, Mom!

Fire, fire, please, please!

Pickpockets, muggers!

Watch out, step aside!

Because someone wants to communicate, comes the declarative sentences. For example: Mother is sick today. Dad is now helping mom in the kitchen. Many bank employees affected by layoffs. The workers are now on strike.
Because of the desire to communicate was exchanged into the actual use of communication, then mucullah sentence form of a question.

For example: 

Did you hurt?
 
Who is the fourth president of the Republic of Indonesia?

Why the people of Indonesia have turned into people irritable? 

What is the meaning of liquidation?

Do you know the meaning of resignation Keprabon?

Since 1925, Bloomfield left mentalism and start using behaviorism and apply it to the theory of language which is now well known structural linguistics or linguistic taxonomy.


Structural Flow Linguistics or Taxonomy Flow Linguistics Definition :
Flow structural is a designation given to understand language, which is based on the idea Behavioristik, so with constituted to understand behavioristik nature of language is seen from the embodiment outward, so in the taxonomy of grammar compiled from the level of the lowest form of phoneme, morpheme, phrase, clause, until the level of the highest in the form of a sentence.

From the explanation of the above theory is what makes me interested to know the psychology of linguistics. I am interested to know someone's personality just from the language that passed her.