ISAPL - About us

The International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) was founded on November 1982 during the 1st International Conference of the AILA Commission of Psycholinguistics in Milan. The initiative came from the basis of a founding proposal written by Tatiana SLAMA-CAZACU and Renzo TITONE, thereafter agreed by 20 founding members. The registered name of the society is “INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS” (initials ISAPL), number of registration 18995/1T, which took place on 21st July, 2014 at Via De Rossi, 16, Bari (Italy), being its notary Michele Labriola.

Applied psycholinguistics is a branch of the sciences of language and cognition, and hence necessarily influenced by the main issues and debates that have marked these sciences in the last 40 years: modularity vs. interactionism; relations between the brain and the physical and mental activities; role and impact of literacy on language and cognition; status and origin of concepts, in particular of the concept of mind. It will be argued that the triad “language, cognition, literacy” (LCL) is highly dependent on the history and culture of the human societies and deeply impacted by the social inequalities.