Psycholinguistics. A Book of Readings

The book under review is a collection of articles by linguists, logicians, and psychologists. These articles are devoted to questions lying at the junction between psychology, linguistics, and logic, and denoted by the term "psycholinguistics." The editer, S. Saporta, does not define this term, which is virtually unknown in Soviet scholarship. Therefore we borrow the definition offered by O. S. Akhmanova: "Psycholinguistics designates the study of the processes by which the intentions of speakers are transformed into signals of a given code and the processes by which the signals in the given code are reconverted upon interpretation by listeners."