The Psychology Of Language

Abstract

This research aims at highlighting the relation between pieces of language, verbal or non-verbal, behavioral or spoken, and users of language. It aims at showing how forms and uses of language help in shaping the speakers’ personalities. Indeed, Psychology of language is one of the most difficult fields as it has always been the main interest of many linguists and psychologists. This research is divided into three main chapters. The first chapter presents the concept of language in psychology, as it tackles the speech act theory, visible activity in talk and other relevant issues. The second chapter focuses more practically on the psychology of language in our daily life. It tackles the way language shapes personalities, language as a tool of power, the double personality that bilinguals have and so on. As for the last chapter, much space for practical issues is given through data collection and analysis. A questionnaire and an interview are used as tools of investigation in order to find an answer for the problematic. As a result, language by all its forms and the personality of the individual are tidily related, associated and connected, and that language is the mirror of others.