Paper: Psycholinguistics
The
Relationship between system, linguistics and psychology
By:
Ramlan Pakaya
321 410
016
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
LETTER AND CULTURE FACULTY
GORONTALO STATE UNIVERSITY
A. Introduction.
Language
is a system of communication or can be called the tool of communication which
can help human being to be communicated with others as a human. With a language
of course we can communicate everything that is in our mind by utterance and
then can be understood by taking the meaning of the discourse.
B. The relationship between System,
linguistics and psychology
Language
is
a formal system for pairing signals with meanings (Fernandez and Cain, 2011). This
pairing can go either way. When people produce a sentence, they use language to
encode the meaning that they wish to convey into a sequence of speech sounds.
When people understand a spoken sentence, language allows them to reverse the
process and decode a speaker’s speech to recover the intended meaning.
Obviously, these activities depend upon the speaker and hearer sharing a common
language: both must have the same linguistic system for pairing sound and
meaning.
Generally,
Linguistics means the science of language or the science that took language as
the object of study. In English, linguist also means “the people that use some
languages” beside means “the experts of language”. A linguist learns about
language because some reasons, and the main reason is not only to mastery the
language, they also learn the language to know deeply the structure of the
language and the other aspects that included in the language.
The
comprehension of Psycholinguistics
The
word Psychology from the etymology
was derived from Ancient Greek Psyche
and logos. The word psyche means “soul, spirit and life
force” then we logos that means
“knowledge”. So by those comprehensions above, it can be concluded that
psychology from the literal meaning is “the science of soul”, or the science
that study about soul. Nowadays, this comprehension cannot be accepted because
there is no study of soul in psychology, the latest understanding of psychology
was the study of human soul by the attitude of human itself.
By
those explanations above, it could be concluded that system can be integrated
into linguistics as in the term of psychology. In another hand, linguistics of
course needs psychology as the mental language that controlled the purpose of
the language itself, how the language utterance, how the way people say the
sentence and how the people understand the meaning of every sentence, of course
psychology has a big role in this situation. Furthermore, psychology needs
linguistics to communicate everything about it.
C. Conclusion
Language
is studied in a branch of science that is called Linguistics. Attitude and
thought pattern is studied in a branch of science that is called Psychology.
Those are two different branch of science which has different focus in study;
however, when the two branches of this science come with a same object of
study, they will be a new branch that is called Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics is the study about human act, thought and attitude in the
relationship of producing the language itself.
Bibliograpghy
Dardjowidjodjo,
S. (2005). Psikolingistik: Pengantar
Pemahaman Bahasa Manusia. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia
Chaer, A. (2003). Psikolingistik Kajian Teoretik. Jakarta:
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Fernandez,
E.M., & Cains, H. S. (2011) Fundamentals
of psycholinguistics. Garsington Road: ISBN
Paper: Psycholinguistics
The
Relationship between system, linguistics and psychology
By:
Ramlan Pakaya
321 410
016
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
LETTER AND CULTURE FACULTY
GORONTALO STATE UNIVERSITY
