Language Reflects Psychology

ABSTRACT

  This paper explores how language reflects a person’s psychology. Language is a significant tool for communication by which people can think and transmit information. There are mainly two sorts of language, including spoken language and body language. Indeed, spoken language is often accompanied by body language. Psychology is human brain’s subjective response to the objectivity. This paper mainly deals with the oral language and body language’s reflection of human psychology.

  As an integral part of the society, whoever we are, we are sure to and have to meet vary kinds of people everyday. However, there will be many problems and misunderstandings if we cannot totally make ourselves understood or realize others meaning and intention. As a result, we are unable to know a person well and handle different interpersonal relationships properly. Therefore, the main question we should pay attention to is that how to correctly read a person’s meaning through listening to his or her speaking and observing their body movement.

  In this thesis, three core questions are elaborated. Firstly, probes into how spoken language reflects a person’s psychology from various aspects of oral language, stress, pause, mood, speed, rhetoric and pet phrase are included. Secondly, to investing ate body language’s reflection of a person’s psychology dividing into three parts, namely, facial expression, head action and movement of other parts of human body. At last, the paper discusses about two situations. One is that the reflection of psychology is different with the same spoken language but various body languages. The other is the reflection of psychology is also different with the same body language but various spoken language.

Keywords: language psychology spoken language body language reflection

語言反映心理

摘  要

  本文探討語言如何反映一個人的心理。語言是人類進行思維和傳遞信息的重要的交際工具。語言主要分為兩種:口頭語言和肢體語言。事實上，口頭語言往往伴隨著肢體語言。心理是人腦對客觀現(xiàn)實的主觀反應(yīng)。本文主要關(guān)注口頭語言和肢體語言對人類心理的反映。

  我們作為社會有機組成的一部分，不管是誰，每天肯定也必須面對不同的人。然而，如果我們在實際交往中不同讓對方明白自己或者自己無法了解別人的意思和目的，彼此間就會產(chǎn)生很多的問題和誤解。結(jié)果，我們不能很好地了解一個人，以及不能恰當(dāng)?shù)靥幚砗萌穗H關(guān)系。因此，如何能通過聽別人的講話和觀察別人講話時的舉動就能正確地理解一個人的內(nèi)心想法和意圖，是一個值得我們關(guān)注和思考的問題。

  論文主要從三大主要問題進行闡述。首先，從口頭語言的各方面，包括語氣、停頓、重讀、語速、修辭和口頭禪來闡述口頭語言是怎樣反映一個人的心理的。然后研究了肢體語言對一個人的心理的反映，分別從面部表情、頭部動作和軀體動作三部分進行闡述。最后，討論了兩種不同的情況。一種情況是相同的口頭語言不同的肢體語言所反映的心理不同；另一種情況是相同的肢體語言不同的口頭語言所反映的心理也不同。

摘要：語言 心理 口頭語言 肢體語言 反映

CONTENTS

  Abstract············································Ⅰ

摘要···············································Ⅱ

1 Introduction·········································1

2 Spoken Language Reflects Psychology···················2

2.1 Different Intonation Reflects Different Psychology············2

2.1.1 Different Stress Reflects Different Psychology··············2

2.1.2 Different Pause Reflects Different Psychology··············4

2.1.3 Different Mood Reflects Different Psychology ·············4

2.1.3.1 Declarative Sentence·································5

2.1.3.2 General Question····································5

2.1.3.3 Rhetorical Question·································5

2.1.3.4 Exclamatory Sentence································6

2.2 Different Speed Reflects Different Psychology···············6

2.3 Different Rhetoric Reflects Different Psychology·············7

2.3.1 Irony··············································7

2.3.2 Repetition··········································7

2.3.3 Exaggeration········································8

2.4Different Pet Phrase Reflects Different Psychology············8

3 Body Language Reflects Psychology····················10

  3.1 Facial Expression Reflects Psychology····················10

  3.1.1 Eyebrows··········································10

  3.1.2 Eyes·············································11

  3.1.3 Nose·············································11

  3.1.4 Mouth and Lip······································12

  3.1.5 Chin··············································12

  3.1.6 Smile·············································12

  3.2 Head Movement Reflects Psychology·····················12

  3.3 Action of Other Parts of Body Reflects Psychology··········13

  3.3.1 Hands·············································13

  3.3.2 Shoulders··········································14

  3.3.3 Legs and Feet·······································14

  4 Two Situations·····································15

4.1 The Same Spoken Language but Various Body Languages Reflects Different Psychology································15

4.2 The Same Body Language but Various Spoken Languages Reflects Different Psychology ·······························15

  Conclusion··········································17

  References··········································18

  Acknowledgements···································19