Without Language, Thought Is A Vague, Uncharted

Psychologically Our Thought-apart From Its Expression In Words-is Only A Shapeless And Indistinct Mass.

Henceforth, Language Studies Were No Longer Directed Merely Towards Correcting Grammar.

Any Psychology Of Sign Systems Will Be Part Of Social Psychology - That Is To Say, Will Be Exclusively Social; It Will Involve The Same Psychology As Is Applicable In The Case Of Languages.

Within Speech, Words Are Subject To A Kind Of Relation That Is Independent Of The First And Based On Their Linkage: These Are Syntagmatic Relations, Of Which I Have Spoken.

It Is One Of The Aims Of Linguistics To Define Itself, To Recognise What Belongs Within Its Domain. In Those Cases Where It Relies Upon Psychology, It Will Do So Indirectly, Remaining Independent.