Destiny and motivation in language : studies in psycholinguistics and glossodynamics / A. A. Roback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roback, A. A. (Abraham Aaron), 1890-1965, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Destiny and motivation in language

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Sci-Art Publishers, 1954.

Summary:

The bulk of the book needs no special pleading, as its purpose is more transparent. Most of the material is built around the voco-sensory theory of language, and because the Semitic triliteral root affords us many excellent illustrations of the application of our theory, two chapters were devoted to the structure of Hebrew and kindred languages. Analyzing various phonemic combinations in the light of this theory yields us a good deal of the psychological groundwork underlying the development of both ideas and expressions. Group psychology figures prominently in the third part of the book where ethnic traits are deduced from linguistic comparisons. It is not to be understood that the ethnic group and the language it uses as a medium must be considered as inseparable. In many instances it is the divergence or deviation which counts. William James did not think it beneath him to study exceptions, when all others were rising on their toes to frame generalisations, if not actual laws.

Contents:

I. Fate, chance, coincidence, and destiny

II. Destiny in names

III. Phoney etymology

IV. The voco-sensory origin of language

V. Shmoo and shmo: the psychoanalytic implications

VI. The 'st' phonex

VII. The 'ng' phonex

VIII. The hand that gives and the hand that takes

IX. General framework of the semitic languages

X. The semantic structure of the Hebrew root

XI. Linguistic dominants

XII. Dialects of the verb

XIII. The impersonal English

XIV. The prepositional American

XV. Insinuatives

XVI. Dialectal homologues

XVII. National characteristics in language

XVIII. The psychology of slang

XIX. Psychological explorations of linguistics

XX. Psychological linguistics in the United States

XXI. What is psycholinguistics?

XXII. The cumula

XXIII. Simulates.

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