different between sociolinguistics vs psycholinguistics

English

Etymology

socio- +? linguistics.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?so?si.o?l????w?st?ks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??si.??l????w?st?ks/, /?s???j??l????w?st?ks/

Noun

sociolinguistics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.

Derived terms

• microsociolinguistics
• macrosociolinguistics

Related terms

• sociolinguist
• sociolinguistic

Translations

See also

• sociolect

English

Etymology

psycho- +? linguistics.

Noun

psycholinguistics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The interdisciplinary field of study which concerns the acquisition, comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms, using concepts and approaches from linguistics, psychology and cognitive science.
   • 1975 [Lawrence Erlbaum], Sam Glucksberg, Joseph H. Danks, Experimental Psycholinguistics: An Introduction, 2014, Psychology Press, page xi,

     Psycholinguistics began with attempts to test the empirical validity of various formal linguistic concepts.

   • 2006, Nobuhiro Furuyama, 44: Language and gesture as a single communicative system, Mineharu Nakayama, Reiko Mazuka, Yasuhiro Shirai, Ping Li (editors), The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics, Volume 2: Japanese, Cambridge University Press, page 333,

     Speech-gesture research is one of the emerging fields in psycholinguistics that, by referring to speech-accompanying gestures, attempts to elucidate the underlying process in which qualitatively different types of thinking, e.g. imagistic thinking and linguistic thinking, become coordinated with one another.

   • 2014, Jill Jegerski, Bill VanPatten, Research Methods in Second Language Psycholinguistics, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page ix,

     The seeds for work on processing have their roots in early L2 research, but the psycholinguistics of SLA didn't really take off until the 1990s.

Synonyms

• (field of study concerning the comprehension and production of language): psychology of language

Derived terms

• developmental psycholinguistics

Translations

See also

• neurolinguistics