This paper reviews some cases in which the collaboration of theoretical pragmaticians and psychologists of language has been most fruitful for all parties. Linguists have benefited from experimental data confirming the psychological validity of their observations and providing theory-critical evidence in cases beyond the reach of reflective intuition, while psychologists have benefited from hav...

This contribution proposes an approach to man which integrates psychological, linguistic and neurobiological perspectives. In addition, precise definitions of psychological terms and a psychophysical structure model are suggested as fundaments for a comprehensive understanding of human experience, thinking and action. A theoretically crucial distinction is made between cognition and intention. ...

We explore the presence of indicators of psychological distress in the linguistic behavior of subjects in a corpus of semistructured virtual human interviews. At the level of aggregate dialogue-level features, we identify several significant differences between subjects with depression and PTSD when compared to nondistressed subjects. At a more fine-grained level, we show that significant diffe...

BACKGROUND Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Framework has enjoyed enormous popularity in the field of applied psychology. NLP has been used in business, education, law, medicine and psychotherapy to identify people's patterns and alter their responses to stimuli, so they are better able to regulate their environment and themselves. NLP looks at achieving goals, creating stable relationships, ...

A series of arguments is presented showing that words are not stored in memory in a way that resembles the abstract, phonological code used by orthography or by linguistic analysis. Words are stored in a very concrete, detailed code that includes nonlinguistic information including speaker’s voice properties and other auditory details. Thus, memory for language resembles an exemplar memory and ...

Complex cognitive processes are often investigated via elicitation of natural language data. While traditional psychological research typically focuses on the analysis and interpretation of content that is directly expressed in verbal reports, linguistic discourse analytic methods can contribute deeper insights into the processes involved, via highlighting linguistic structures and patterns tha...

Existing evidence shows that more abstract mental representations are formed and more abstract language is used to characterize phenomena that are more distant from the self. Yet the precise form of the functional relationship between distance and linguistic abstractness is unknown. In four studies, we tested whether more abstract language is used in textual references to more geographically di...

Recent years have seen a large increase in the number of experimental studies into how children learn to speak a language. As in other sciences, clever experiments have been designed and conducted to answer questions that were inspired by linguistic theories. Most linguistic theories, however, focus on the abstract mental representation of language rather than on observed language behavior. As ...

Left-hemispheric language dominance has been suggested by observations in patients with brain damages as early as the 19th century, and has since been confirmed by modern behavioural and brain imaging techniques. Nevertheless, most of these studies have been conducted in small samples with predominantly Anglo-American background, thus limiting generalization and possible differences between cul...