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Tarai, Shashikanta; Mukherjee, Rupsha; Qurratul, Quais Ain; Singh, Bikesh Kumar; Bit, Arindam – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
Use of prosocial language enhances human cooperation and harmony. Previous research has shown that talking about helping, sharing and giving to others creates positive impression on others, by which individuals and governments gain public approval. So far, the value judgement of approval and disapproval in terms of prosocial or antisocial has not…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Prosocial Behavior, Helping Relationship, Value Judgment
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Oguma, Hitoshi; Iritani, Toshio – Linguistics, 1976
Some psycholinguistic interpretations of the Japanese language are made, with reference to the relationships between sentence structure and cognition. Features of the language indicating a strong interdependency between linguistic expression and behavioral practice are examined. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Japanese
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Ingram, Elisabeth – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1971
Earlier version of this paper was read at the Second International Congress of Applied Linguistics, Cambridge, England, September 1969. (VM)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach – 1977
This paper is an abstract of the original manuscript, by Nancy Boulton, which examines the area of intersection between purely linguistic and social behavior to see if the latter is amenable to formal description. The paper examines psychoanalytic discourse and presents evidence for the following hypotheses: (1) since participants can recognize…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Theories, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
Singleton, Clifford G.; Rice, Paul – 1971
This course involves an approach to language study dealing with the psychology, the process of abstraction, and the levels of the meaning of language. The objectives of the course include demonstrating an understanding of: (1) the origin and nature of language, (2) the process by which language changes and develops, (3) the abstract nature of the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Behavior Patterns, Cultural Education, Curriculum Guides
Okby, Mamud M. – 1972
This discussion of verbal communication seeks to bring a new "unity" and order into the study of linguistics, to make linguistics truly an interdisciplinary science, and to communicate more effectively with the outside world, peopled by those who do not speak linguistic jargon. The particular linguistic problem here is an exploratory…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Grammar, Information Processing
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Dale, Rick – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
The past 20 years have seen research on language acquisition in the cognitive sciences grow immensely. The current paper offers a fairly extensive review of this literature, arguing that new cognitive theories and empirical data are perfectly consistent with core predictions a behavior analytic approach makes about language development. The review…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Prediction, Grammar