Essence of the psychological approach to language and its role in speech

Abstract

In this writing is approached to the language not with the question “How?”, but with the question “Why?”. In this article, the essence of language and its role in speech activity are studied and explained. In our study, the essence of language, how it is formed and the reasons for the emergence of language were studied and explained with examples. The article then takes a psychological approach to language and studies the psychology of language. Based on the fact that language serves communication, the essence of communication is explained and the psychology of language is studied in order to bring it to a higher level. When using language, that is, when speaking, two directions of the psychological approach to language are shown in order to better achieve the goal. In the first direction, speech reflects the mental state of the speaker, and in the second direction, speech affects the mental state of the listener. In the first direction, speech reflects the mental state of the speaker, and in the second direction, speech affects the mental state of the listener. These two directions are explained in detail with examples and their importance is shown. On the other hand, the role of the human psyche in the typological and functional formation of languages ​​and at what moments this role mainly manifests itself has been investigated. Within these issues, problems such as word and meaning, name and naming, language fact and speech fact were explained on the basis of examples.