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Psycholinguistics
Medical Definition: | A discipline concerned with relations between messages and the characteristics of individuals who select and interpret them; it deals directly with the processes of encoding (phonetics) and decoding (psychoacoustics) as they relate states of messages to states of communicators. |
Guide Notes: | SPEC: IM, SPEC qualif; coord with specific linguistic & psychol concepts (IM); NIM coord, no qualif |
Previously Indexed: | Language (1966) |
Semantic Differential - Analysis of word concepts by the association of polar adjectives, e.g., good-bad, with the concept, father. The adjectives are usually scaled in 7 steps. The subject's placement of the concept on the adjectival scale indicates the connotative meaning of the concept. |
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