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The rebirth of Psycholinguistics
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Maria da Graça Pinto
Porto University, Portugal
Leonor Scliar — Cabral
Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina, UFSC, Brazil
Larysa Zasiekina
National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine
The special volume of the journal Signo, 88(47), 2022 publishes the submitted, evaluated, accepted and reviewed articles, product of the communications and conferences presented at the Online 12th ISAPL International Congress “New perspectives in psycholinguistic research: language, culture, technologies”, June 3–5, 2021.
Twenty-four authors represent nine countries (Belgium, Brazil, France, Georgia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and Ukraine), since, of the seventeen papers selected, some were written by more than one author. Brazilian authors constitute the largest number (eight), which is understandable, since the current ISAPL President and Secretary-Treasurer are Brazilians.
From the sixteen Congress Session Themes, nine were covered: Language and cognition (namely, deaf, sign language, segment awareness and reading evaluation); Language acquisition. Foreign language learning; Bilingualism and multilingualism; Language Disorders and Speech Pathologies (namely, aphasia). Phonoaudiology; Psycholinguistic methodology for the analysis of literary texts; Culture and society effects on language; Psycholinguistics perspective of Mass Media (MM). Ethical/negative effects of MM communication; Speech comprehension and production. Reading and writing and Awareness, emotion, memory in communication.
Some authores discuss current problems for the whole world, like Fake News (Lyubymova), aggression discourse (Krylova-Grek) and pandemic effects, determined by COVID-19 that has caused wide and intense impacts throughout society (Souza Moraes Mori), but some theorethical backgrounds are also influential in many papers, as, for instance, Lev Vygotsky’s cultural-historical…
