(A sequel to the previous post,
"For a Language Animal")
From Nine Perfect Strangers
Season 2 Episode 4 — The Major Lift
12:25 Imogen has three graduate degrees.
12:27 Really?
12:28 Wow.
12:30 In what?
12:31 Psychology, linguistics and linguistic psychology.
12:34 So, um, psycholinguistics?
12:37 Uh, no.
12:38 Psycholinguistics is the study of how human psychology
allows us to develop and learn language.
12:44 Linguistic psychology is, it's, that's different.
12:46 Oh, how so?
12:48 Well, it's the study of how our patterns of speech
affect our emotional life.
12:54 You know?
12:55 You know how some people say words are violence?
12:58 As opposed to literal violence?
12:59 I don't think she means it in that sense.
13:01 Oh, no.
13:01 That is.
13:02 Oh, it is?
13:02 No, that is what I'm trying to say.
13:04 Yeah.
13:05 Right.
13:05 Sorry.
13:06 Um.
13:07 So, linguistic psychology is the study of how and why
language can sometimes have the same,
13:13 same effect on your body as physical assault.
13:17 So, I was the first person to just start that solo study.
13:22 Does that mean you made it up?
13:24 Uh, I pioneered it.
13:25 I didn't think they let you do that.
13:27 They basically let you do anything you want at NYU.
13:31 On that note, uh, cheers.
13:33 Cheers.
13:35 Cheers.
A possible musical accompaniment . . .
