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{"title":"Information and Psychological Security of the Media Space. Ukrainian Experience of Implementation of Psycholinguistic Component Into Media Education","authors":"Yuliya Krylova-Grek, O. Korniyaka","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-111-128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-111-128","url":null,"abstract":"The article covers the Ukrainian experience of the of integrating a psycholinguistic component into media and information education,which we consider as one of the most important elements of the information security control system in the media space. The psycholinguistic component aims at providing special knowledge and skills for analysing linguistic means and non-linguistic tools used in the media to enhance the impact on the reader’s world view (media and information literacy), identifying fraudulent messages to prevent access to personal data (cyber literacy). This component also involves the acquisition by the media consumer of the skills of identifying the methods and techniques used by journalists to influence the reader. These skills allow analysing texts and understand the author’s intentions and purpose, as well as identifying the used means and methods of influencing the reader. We have designed a course of media and information education for journalists and consumers of media products in order to help them fully navigate the modern information and communication space and effectively counteract disinformation. The course aims to: (1) the formation of competence in the field of media, information and cyber literacy; (2) inclusion in the media literacy course of the basics of psycholinguistic analysis of materials; (3) the development of cyber literacy. The research used such methods as questionnaires, analysis and synthesis, arrangement, and systematization of theoretical and empirical material, psycholinguistic analysis of text. Conclusions. In the study, the psychological readiness of a media specialist to counteract manipulative informational and communicative influences is considered within the scope of the activity approach and in relation to such individual characteristics as motivational, cognitive, informational-technical, emotional-volitional, and moral-ethical competences. A media specialist’s possession of all these competencies is necessary for the formation of a stable psychological readiness to resist manipulative influences.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139311202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Метод незакінчених речень в міждисциплінарному дослідженні соціально-демографічних та лінгвокультурних особливостей засуджених за колабораційну діяльність","authors":"V. Shymko","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-173-203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-173-203","url":null,"abstract":"Мета. Розгляд специфіки застосування методу незакінчених речень в міждисциплінарному дослідженні соціально-демографічних та лінгвокультурних особливостей на прикладі з’ясування особистісних чинників колабораціонізму. Методики дослідження. Концепт дослідження розроблено та реалізовано на основі системного розуміння поведінки як складної та багаторівневої взаємодії суб’єкта із середовищем. А саме, використано теоретичні положення структурно-онтологічної методології соціальних, гуманітарних та поведінкових наук. На вказаних засадах розроблено опитувальник “Особливості мого світогляду”, до якого окрім традиційних соціологічних критеріїв включено запитання щодо поведінкових звичок та різноманітних світоглядних особливості респондентів. Окремим блоком в опитувальник інтегровано десять стемів незакінчених речень. Дослідженням охоплено дві групи – експериментальна (58 суб’єктів пробації, засуджених за колабораційну діяльність) та контрольна (388 працівників уповноважених органів та підрозділів з питань пробації). Результати. Узагальнений соціально-демографічний профіль колаборанта поряд з низьким рівнем достатку і освіти, включає проблемне здоров’я та тенденцію нехтувати спортом і фізичною культурою. Поєднання перелічених чинників експериментальної групи є ознакою тенденції щодо більш низького рівня соціального благополуччя порівняно із характеристиками контрольної групи. У колаборантів виявлено тенденцію щодо психологічного дистанціювання від національно-культурного простору України. Ця особливість була ретельно досліджена за допомогою використання методу незакінчених речень, п’ять з яких виявили суттєві статистично значущі відмінності в досліджуваних групах. Висновки. Метод незакінчених дозволяє суттєво поглибити розуміння та конкретизувати гіпотези, зроблені за допомогою інших методів. Зокрема,  соціально-демографічний індикатор психологічного дистанціювання колаборантів від соціуму пояснюється світоглядними відмінностями досліджуваних – ціннісний егоцентризм колаборантів та, як наслідок, брак соціально-відповідальної взаємодії з суспільством. Соціальна реабілітація повинна передбачати поглиблення ступеню соціальної залученості колаборантів, яка здебільшого обмежується близько-родинним колом. Більшість досліджених колаборантів не виявили концепту «омріяного майбутнього». Образ прийдешнього, як правило, зводиться до вузького егоцентричного змісту у вигляді простого покращення поточної соціально-побутової ситуації людини. Більшість колаборантів є носіями світоглядної ідеї щодо соціальної лояльності. Однак, ця ідея не трансформується в патріотичну проукраїнську позицію через відсутність у колаборантів суспільної залученості в результаті ціннісного інфантилізму. Отже основні напрямки соціальної реабілітації пов’язані з ціннісною диференціацією колаборантів, а також розвитком в них емоційного інтелекту.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139310071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Use of Jordanian Arabic Possessive Pronouns by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder","authors":"Razan N. Alkhatib, A. R. Altakhaineh","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-6-27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-6-27","url":null,"abstract":"Aim. This study aimed to investigate the use of different Jordanian Arabic possessive pronouns by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and explore the influence of their IQ on the usage of possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives. Methods. The study employed a paired-choice preference assessment method adapted from Fisher et al. (1992). The sample consisted of 16 autistic children aged 11–15, divided into two groups based on their IQ: low (70–74) and high (76–80). The participants were presented with two stimuli and observed as they made choices and interacted with the selected stimulus. Preference percentages were calculated to determine their choices. The data analytics included descriptive statistics and t-tests to assess differences between groups. Results. The findings revealed that children with autism struggled to use and produce all possessive pronouns effectively in both forms. Additionally, the results indicated a preference for possessive pronouns over possessive adjectives among the autistic participants. Conclusions. Notably, the study highlights that the children’s IQ played a significant role in their usage and production of possessive pronouns. Based on these findings, it is recommended that interventions and educational programs for children with autism incorporate targeted teaching strategies for the proper use of possessive pronouns. These strategies should be tailored to the individual language and cognitive abilities of the child, considering their IQ level as an influencing factor.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139311468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Visual and Auditory Temporal Processing in Elementary School Children","authors":"Claudia Vásquez, Mercedes Muñetón-Ayala","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-85-110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-85-110","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose. Temporal processing shows an evolutionary character in accordance with age and schooling. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of temporal processing in children in different grades in primary school. Methods. 470 children (aged 5–13), in five school grades, were compared to a Temporal Order Judgment. Similar visual and auditory, linguistic, and nonlinguistic stimuli were presented to them. A three-factor repeated measure multivariate analysis of variance was used to examine the effects of Grade (1°vs.2°vs.3°vs.4°vs.5°) x Stimulus (Linguistic vs. Nonlinguistic) x Modality (Visual vs. Auditory). Results. These three factors have significant interactions. Auditory-nonlinguistic tasks were easier than auditory-linguistic tasks in every grade. Visual-nonlinguistic tasks were easier than visual-linguistic tasks in higher grades, and 1st grade differed significantly from the other school grades in all cases. The higher the school grade, the better the performance of TOJ tasks. Visual-linguistic tasks were easier than auditory-linguistic tasks. Conclusions. The present study provides evidence concerning the progressive nature of temporal processing among primary school children. This development trajectory is particularly noteworthy for students in lower primary school grades. Furthermore, the Temporal Order Judgment (TOJ) task exhibited robust experimental support, rendering it a valuable tool for assessing temporal processing within conventional school populations. This task offers the potential to assess TP across auditory and / or visual modalities, with diverse types of stimuli (linguistic vs. non-linguistic). Finally, the auditory modality, and especially the auditory linguistic modality, showed greater sensitivity depending on the school grade.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"2017 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139313565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Music on Verbal Memory: Evidence from Jordanian University Students","authors":"Noor Al-Yasin, Jihad M. Hamdan","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-28-49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-28-49","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose. Following the hypothesis of shared cognitive mechanisms between language and music, the present study investigates the interconnection between musical orientation and language processing operations in Broca’s area, namely verbal retrieval. The researchers replicated Taylor & Dewhurst’s (2017) study by applying a perceptual task of four types of words in Arabic to Jordanian university students spanning a wide range of musical orientations. Methods. The participants are musicians with different levels of musical training and non-musicians who vary in their musical interests. A T-test was applied to the results of musicians and non-musicians. Furthermore, a Kruskal-Wallis test was carried out to reveal significant differences within groups. Moreover, paired comparisons were conducted to find out significant differences between the four word types regardless of the participants’ musical background. Results. First, verbal memory was enhanced by musical training where musicians, despite their level of musical training, scored significantly better than non-musicians in the verbal recall test. Second, the level of musical training contributes to improving the ability to recall different types of words where advanced musicians scored higher than intermediates and beginners. Third, non-musicians who spend more time than others listening to music daily scored better in the given perceptual task than those who spend less time listening to music or do not listen to music at all. Finally, visual words appeared to be the easiest to recall since they are high in imagery. In contrast, abstract words are the hardest to recall given that they only have non-sensory features, unlike concrete words, such as visual, auditory and tactile words. Conclusions. This study supports the hypothesis of music impact on the retrieval process of words. Higher exposure to musical training or music in general leads to better word retrieval. However, word type can be a factor that might affect the retrieval process since certain word types are easier to recall than others.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139313432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Pragmatic Functions of wa in Jordanian Arabic: A Corpus-based Study","authors":"Jihad M. Hamdan, Hady J. Hamdan, Wael Hamdan, Wafa Alkhadra","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-132-155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-132-155","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose. This paper examines the pragmatic functions of wa, the most frequently used discourse marker in the daily interactions of speakers of Jordanian Arabic (JA). Procedure. The principal researcher built with the help of a research assistant a small-size corpus from conversations and talks presented by Jordanian TV and Radio Jordan in JA. The recordings ran for 194 minutes and covered multiple aspects of Jordanian life and culture such as traffic and safety, water and agriculture, education, tourism and environment, health, mountaineering and social topics. The recordings were transcribed for analysis by two of the four researchers and verified by the other two. The transcripts comprised 20660 words with 1229 instances of wa. To identify the pragmatic functions of wa, the researchers worked in groups of two and screened and examined independently a different 50 percent of the transcribed data and proposed their own list of identified functions along with at least two illustrative examples for each pragmatic function. Once done, they held a number of successive meetings to review the outcome with a view to reaching consensus judgments on the identified functions and examples. They were able to agree on eight of the 12 suggested labels. For the remaining four, they invited a focus group of 10 postgraduate students of linguistics whose native language was JA to examine and discuss the disputed material. This intensive and laborious work had reduced the list of functions to 11. Results. The findings of the study show that wa has 11 pragmatic functions. It is mainly used for expressing addition, indicating resumption, swearing an oath, concluding a premise, elaborating on the antecedent sentence, restating, mocking, showing simultaneity, extending congratulations, linking alternative contrasts, and avoiding complete and explicit listing. Conclusions. The paper identified 11 pragmatic functions of wa in Jordanian Arabic. However, the paper has made no claims that these functions are conclusive as the corpus is small and is collected from officially channeled media that had to pass censorship before being released. Another thing of importance is the extent to which the proposed labels for the functions is agreed by the readers of this paper, including academic colleagues. Once again, we cannot argue that the given names of the functions are unequivocally sound and acceptable. A reader may suggest another label here and there and this temptation cannot be easily suppressed.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139313953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Landscape of Vocabulary Acquisition Research: A Psycholinguistic Exploration through Citation Metrics","authors":"M. Mohsen, Hassan Saleh Mahdi, Manar M. Almanea","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-48-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-48-81","url":null,"abstract":"Goal. This study undertakes a comprehensive synthesis of vocabulary acquisition research through the lens of psycholinguistics. A targeted analysis was conducted on articles published in four premier psycholinguistic journals indexed in Scopus: Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Psycholinguistics Journal, and East European Journal of Psycholinguistics. Methods. Utilizing the Dimensions database, we scrutinized the abstracts of 2,001 articles spanning the period from 1971 to 2022. Our analysis centered on emerging research themes and employed various citation metrics. Results. Our findings identified several prominent clusters of research themes, including the challenges of reading comprehension, the verbal behaviors exhibited by learners during vocabulary acquisition, the cognitive awareness of morphological functions in acquired vocabulary, and the neuropsychological mechanisms underpinning bilingual language production and comprehension. Notably, the Spanish language emerged as the most frequently studied target language across the selected journals. In terms of academic influence, our analysis revealed that, apart from one of the targeted journals serving as a leading co-cited source, other major co-cited journals predominantly belonged to the fields of neurolinguistics and psychology. The article concludes by proposing multiple avenues for future research in this dynamic and interdisciplinary domain.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139314886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Concept “ENGLAND” and its Subconcepts in the Consciousness of Ukrainian Students","authors":"Natalia Mykhalchuk, A. Plakhtii, O. Panchenko, E. Ivashkevych, Nataliia Khupavtseva, Оleksiy Chebykin","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-6-47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-6-47","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the research is the empirical study of the peculiarities of the deployment of the concept ENGLAND and its subconcepts in the linguistic consciousness of Ukrainians in terms of logical-semantic organization of the respondents’ thinking and speech activity. Methods. Theoretical methods were categorical and structurally-functional analysis of lexical units, the methods of systematization, modeling, generalization; empirical ones – the analysis of lexical units, the experiment. For the purpose of studying the ways of explication of the concept «ENGLAND» and its subconcepts in the consciousness of Ukrainian students we used the associative experiment; the designations of the kernel and the periphery of the concept ENGLAND were included as stimulus-words. Results. It was shown that the concept ENGLAND was included into the worldview of the Ukrainian ethnic group. It is a cultural script in the individual consciousness, the form of which facilitates the formation of the mentality of Ukrainian students. Due to the influence of the concept ENGLAND, a person immerses himself/herself in British and, thanks to the translation of lexical units from English to his/her native Ukrainian language, in Ukrainian culture, and thus can influence the British multicultural world (even if a Ukrainian does not live in England). Conclusions. We proved, that in the mind of the person a concept is generated on the basis of the results of practical activity, cognition and assessment of the objective world. At the same time, any concept appears in the form of the image that can be amplified by various degrees of abstraction. When the number of its signs increases, that is the level of abstraction also increases, the sensory image gradually turns into a mental image. This principle of formation of the mental representation of knowledge about the world allows us to consider the concept as a complex, amplified paradigmatic structure, which includes various aspects of knowledge and personally significant experience, including scripts of worldview, rational, emotional, multicultural aspects.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139317227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Variativity of the Speaker’s Verbal and Non-verbal Behavior in the English Managerial Discourse","authors":"Lyudmila Soloshchuk, Yuliia Skrynnik","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-110-131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-2-110-131","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. This paper focuses on the study of the verbal and non-verbal repertoire of the speaker changing his/her social roles in the managerial type of discourse in the psycholinguistic perspective. The ambition of this analysis is to regard the strategies and tactics of the social roles’ performance with the detailed psycholinguistic analysis of the verbal and non-verbal repertoire of the speakers. Taking into account a speaker’s mental representations, sociolinguistic characteristics, interpreted as a speaker’s social status and roles, and the communicative situation itself, the research purposes are to explore the influence of the managerial context of communication on the communicative repertoire of the speaker transitioning from a leadership role to a subordinate one or from a subordinate role to a leadership role; the analysis of the difference in the realization of the communicative strategies by the same speaker performing either a leadership role or a subordinate social role in the managerial discourse also presents the goal of this paper. Methods and procedure of research. The research is carried out on the basis of the analysis of 578 dialogical fragments from film scripts in which changing of social roles by a discursive personality in the managerial discourse is presented. The discursive analysis, contextual and situational analysis, pragma-linguistic analysis, and elements of quantitative calculations are used in the article. Results. The verbal and non-verbal repertoire of the realization of the strategies and tactics for the social roles performance in the managerial discourse are distinguished in the article. Their ratio is calculated in the research in order to display the most efficient ones for the successful role performance. The paper proves that the usage of stereotyped verbal and non-verbal models of communication in the managerial discourse contributes to the realization of the certain social role, and thus, to the achievement of the communicative goals. Conclusions. The hierarchization of status-role relations in the managerial discourse influences the speech repertoire of the speaker. This is reflected in the verbal and non-verbal means of implementing the strategies of dominance and subordination in the managerial discourse. A promising area of the research is connected with the studying of discursive variability of verbal and non-verbal communicative components which provide the social roles’ performance in the intercultural managerial discourse with considering the psycholinguistic peculiarities of the speaker.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"253 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139318043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Semantic and Pragmatic Meaning of Discursive Units in the Process of Communication of a Psychotherapist with a Client","authors":"Sergii Maksymenko, E. Ivashkevych, Yevhen Kharchenko, Olena Tarnavska, Nadija Sinjavska","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-129-172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2023-34-1-129-172","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of our research is to study semantic and pragmatic meaning of discursive units in the process of communication of a psychotherapist with teenagers with autonomic dysfunctions, using the methods of Positive Psychotherapy. Methods. The main method which has been used in our article was the method of providing psychological help to teenagers with autonomic dysfunction with a help of a five-step model of Positive Psychotherapy (Peseschkian, 2000). To analyze the empirical results of the study the psychodiagnostic technique “Balance Model of Mental Energy Distribution” was used (Peseschkian, 2000). We also used the author’s 24-scale bipolar version of the semantic differential for understanding the semantic and pragmatic meaning of discursive units in the process of communication of a psychotherapist with a client. Results. In our research we determined the semantic and pragmatic meanings of discursive words, such as: (1) actualization of the previous context; (2) anthropocentricity of the statement; (3) synonymy of the context given by discursive words; (4) antonymy of the context given by discursive words; (5) hyponymic context given by discursive words; (6) amplification of the previous context; (7) amplification of conclusions using updated key statements; (8) expectedness/unexpectedness of the addresser’s statement. Conclusions. The specificity of paradigmatic connections of discursive words (first of all, synonymous, antonymic, hyponymic, anthropocentric, actualized, amplified, expected or unexpected) is determined by their contextual dependence. We call such semantic and pragmatic communicative meanings, which differentiate discursive words in the paradigm of communicative situations in the process of communication between a psychotherapist and a client, intentional scripts. They are distinguished by variable lexical and functional possibilities, depending on the context of the utterance, as well as different variations of lexical and semantic, pragmatic and functional constructions.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139335889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}