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Psychology and Language
Abstract
Language is a particularly challenging topic for Psychology because it is among the most multi-disciplinary of subjects, studied also in disciplines like linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism, neurology and psychiatry. Language allows us to communicate with others but also with ourselves, giving us words to describe the psychological realm. This chapter takes Noah Porter&s;s 1886 view on language as a turning point because, unlike most Psychologists who followed him, he recognised the extent to which the language used to describe psychological phenomena is derived by analogical extension from language used to describe the ‘outside’ world. This leads to a discussion of language and thought, the evolution of language and the elaboration of its social functions by Basil Bernstein. The chapter also offers a critical discussion of thought experiments like the Turing Test and the Chinese Room before drawing some, hopefully, thought-provoking conclusions.
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- Authors
- Richards, G., & Stenner, P.
- Venue
- Putting Psychology in Its Place
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2022-06-22
- Pages
- 253-268
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- W4283269906
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- 571
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- 139.42
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- en
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