this is how the shoe fits Psycholinguistics is as much about the study of the human mind itself as it is about the study of that mind's ability to communicate and comprehend. better the understanding of human nature more effective the means to control it in both religion and politics which are commingled to fit appropriate agendas.. ~~ linguistic philosophy which cares only about language, and not about the world is like the boy who preferred the clock without the pendulum because although it no longer told the time it went more easily than before and at a more exhilarating pace. ~ Bertrand Russell ~ (1959) ~~ Subsequently, psycholinguistic research has nonetheless recognized the inseparability of language from its underlying mental machinery and the external world.