Word salad. Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Individual differences | Personality | Philosophy | Social |Methods | Statistics | Clinical | Educational | Industrial | Professional items | World psychology | Language:Linguistics · Semiotics · Speech Word salad is a mixture of randomly chosen words that, while arranged in phrases that appear to give them meaning, actually carry no significance.
A famous example is Noam Chomsky's phrase, "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously". It may also refer to: CSO. Word salad. Word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a mental disorder.
The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but the meaning is confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from it. The term is often used in psychiatry, as well as in theoretical linguistics to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgment by native speakers, and in computer programming to describe textual randomization.
In mental health diagnoses[edit] Word salad - definition and examples of word salad.