Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary science that covers topics both from psychology and linguistics. This textbook is written for future linguists who are interested in expanding their area of expertise and for psychologists who are not familiar with linguistics. The author deals with the following topics: history of psycholinguistics, child speech, speech production, speech perception, text as an object of psycholinguistics, and experiments in psycholinguistics. The author has also added to this edition: a description of forensic psycholinguistics (including analysis of expertise on hate language), the problem of identification of personality by speech (including distance profiling on the basis of written text and oral speech) and problems of manipulation by speech. The book has a multitude of examples both in English and Russian. It has 420 pages.