LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:3 March 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Psychological Studies and Linguistic Analysis

Bhagwanti Jadwani, Ph.D.

Abstract

Psychologists mainly use language as a tool to study human behavior and cognitive functioning. In fact, there is no psychological measure where language is not used, from the instructions and the tests itself to analysis and interpretation we find language everywhere. Since 1970s ‘turn to language’ movement there has been many developments in the methods where language is the only tool whereby one can plunge deep in the human mind. Discourse analysis, text analysis and analysis of narratives are some of the forms of methods which can be very useful for psychologists. Present paper is focused on the analytical methods when linguistic data is collected through interviews, diaries, literary writings and narrations; how the data can be stratified and put to meaningful structure for the researchers’ purpose and to keep the human aspect in the data intact. The Example discussed in the paper is thematic analysis.

Key Words: Language, Qualitative methods, Schizophrenia, Stratification of text, Thematic Analysis

Language: A Bridge between Science and Art

Psychology is all about understanding minds – our own mind and that of others. This understanding should be aimed at the formation of better societies, better organizations, a better life and should add to the seamless ocean of knowledge. Observation and communication are basic processes with which understanding starts. Intuition and contemplation complement these primary processes. Psychological research since beginning has been more preoccupied with scientific measures which degraded artistic efforts as unscientific. Researchers hardly give their minds freedom from the scientific systematicity and due to the adherence to this systematicity many dimensions of human mind are left hidden behind the screen of numbers and generalizations. Science overpowered art and reason took over intuition. But a good science is lifeless without art. It is the time that psychologists should rethink over the contribution of their tools and techniques, integrating art with science and train the interpreters of mind as artists well versed in the science of behaviour.

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Bhagwanti Jadwani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Discipline of Psychology
School of Social Science
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Block F, School of Social Sciences, Academic Complex
Maidan Garhi
New Delhi -110068
bhagwanti01@gmail.com
bhagwanti@ignou.ac.in
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