Psychological Factors and Mechanism of College Students in the Process of Language Expression

Abstract

For college students, the language expression ability directly bears on the interpersonal communication and personal development. This paper aims to identify the psychological factors and clarify the psychological mechanism of college students in the process of language expression. First, the linguistic features generalized by Saussure were introduced, followed by a review of linguistic semiotics. Then, a questionnaire survey was conducted in 23 universities of Shandong, China. The self-confidence and its influencing factors of the respondents was analysed statistically based on the survey data. The results show that only a few college students are unconfident about language expression; the confidence is mainly affected by inferiority, shyness, nervousness, anxiety and inversion; the psychological mechanism of college students in the process of language expression can be summed up as a multi-stage process, involving language acquisition, discourse generation, language occurrence and language understanding. The research findings help to promote the language expression ability of college students.