In his acknowledgments (p. xii), the author, a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, attributes his conceptualization of linguistics to Joan Bybee (1989), Bruce Derwing (Derwing and Skousen, 1989), and Skousen (1989, 1992, 1995), and these influences are certainly evident in this volume. Eddington (henceforth E.) has amassed an impressive personal bibliography in the area of pho...

Introduction Text analysis can significantly enrich ideas about the functioning of psyche in mental illness. Objectives The purpose this study was to identify linguistic features texts written by people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and relationship between them personality traits indicators standard living patients. Methods Twenty-nine patients (F20, F21, F23, F25 according ICD-10) 37 ...

Motivational profiling is commonly done in both marketing and forensic contexts. In an unabashed quest for creativity, many marketers use projective psychological techniques to search for inspiration that leads to ad concepts that will, ultimately, sell more products. Forensic professionals also seek predictive information about motivation in search of facts that will effectively lead to the ca...

Linguistic features can predict several aspects of human behavior. Little is known, however, about whether syntactic, semantic and structural language features can also predict psychological disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study investigated whether the linguistic properties in trauma narratives written by survivors of a Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA), change a...

A linguistic analysis was performed on the Preschool Five Minute Speech Sample (PFMSS) of 42 parents. PFMSS is a validated measure for Expressed Emotion (EE) to assess parent-child relationship. Half of these parents (n = 21, clinical group) had preschool children with early symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the rest had typically developing children. Early symptoms o...

The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

the developmental, individual-difference, relationship-based model (dir) aims to describe and explain human psychological development in an integrated way. it has been believed that cognitive, linguistic, affective, personality abilities emerge within stages of “functional emotional development”. the human development influenced by a dynamic interaction among biopsyosocial variables. as a child...

This research is entitled “Psychological Implications in Poetic Images of the Collection of: A Linguistic Study”. study discusses types meaning. Generally, meaning categorized into two parts: semantic and pragmatic Besides, it also interpretations artistic phenomena psychological implications shows their implications. Meaning generally a multidisciplinary sophisticated concept; hence has been d...