Writer and University of Calgary adjunct professor in psychology and linguistics, Julie Sedivy seamlessly joins these two fields in Language in Mind: a field that Sedivy describes as, “The psychology of language the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors involved in the perception, production, and acquisition of language” (p.5). It examines questions such as: how do we understand language and judge it to be funny or offensive? The fast-growing field of psycholinguistics, which combines insights from psychology and linguistics, provides tools to do just that-understand how language works. Taking the malapropism mantle from George Bush, Sarah Palin’s January 2015 speech dissolved every known rule of the English language.ĭesigned as an undergraduate textbook, Language in Mind: an introduction to psycholinguistics is an essential handbook for navigating the sea of text, images, and sound that comprise our communication environment. Language in Mind: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. Julie Sedivy. Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. This review originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. Language in Mind highlights the topics that capture the imagination of researchers and students alike, for example, deaf communities, poetry, jokes, misutterances, and Alzheimer’s disease. It would be a joy to teach using this book, writes Gwyneth Sutherlin.
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