Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...a group of words shall be regarded as the psychological unit. From one point of view, that of the mere grammatical formation and analysis, the sentence breaks up into letters and words, phrases and clauses, more or less arbitrarily, according to the grammatological principle invoked. But from the point of view of psychological analysis proper (the psycholgy of the meaning of the sentence) letters and words, and even phrases and clauses, as such, cease to be the significant units, cease to afford the useful lines of cleavage. The psychological units lie rather on the side of serviceability for ' getting on' in the activity-experience; they consist rather in the dynamogenic units of thought as they find expression in linguistic symbols. From this point of view a word may be psychologically very complex, and an entire sentence relatively simple. Instances are fresh in everyone's experience, of single words packed and doubly compacted with meaning, and of whole phrases and clauses containing scarcely sufficient meaning to arrest the attention as they are seen or heard. It is not into the analysis of the psychology of meaning (or, as we have called it, the psychology proper) of the language forms which serve as thought symbols, that we here propose to enter. This, as has already been emphasized, can be profitably approached from the genetic side only. Nor is it into the experimental isolation of the different factors that we here inquire; this also, as requiring a neurological basis, we have set aside as a problem for the present beyond our immediate scope. But the question which we may answer is, What do lapses suggest as to the elements or factors which go to make up that complex experience which we call verbal assimilation? The first step in this...
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