EXPLORING PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: BASICS FOR BEGINNERS

Abstract

This study aims at exploring the concept of psycholinguistics. It focuses on the core concepts used in the scope of the field, which is important to a beginner to fully appreciate. It gives an overview of psychology and linguistics in a nutshell, investigating the concept of multidisciplinary nature of psycholinguistics, mind, brain, language and learning from three perspectives: behaviorism, mentalism and interactionism. This study adopted qualitative methodology as paradigm and close reading as strategy. Moreover, the sources were purposively selected. It finds out answers to the questions: “What is mind?” and “What is language?” Moreover, it also comes up with a set of recommendations.