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{"title":"Second Language Learners’ Pauses Over Different Times Intervals in L2 Writing Essays: Evidence From a Keystroke Logging Program","authors":"M. Mohsen","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-1-180-202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-1-180-202","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose. Several studies have been conducted to analyse students’ pauses during first language and/or second language writing to indicate the magnitude of the underlying cognitive processes learners have. Majority of studies have examined students’ pauses at a threshold 200ms. However, little is known about recording second language learners' pauses at different pauses’ times over different types of genres. The current investigation reports a case study of L2 learners’ cognitive processes by recording their pauses (<500ms, <1000ms, and <2000ms) during L2 writing in response to multiple genres prompts. \u0000Design / methodology / approach. Twenty-five postgraduate students were asked to write three essays over three weeks, and their writing processes were recorded using a keystroke logging program (Inputlog, 7, Leijten & van Waes, 2013). Data was triangulated using a log file from the keystroke logging program, a process graph for writing behavior through different stages, and a visual video recording of their captured screens during writing behaviours. \u0000Findings. Results found that the students paused over sentence and paragraph boundaries and their pauses between paragraphs were significantly higher in writing narrative essay than in their argumentative essays at pauses intervals <500 and <1000ms respectively, and in turn, their pauses between sentences in an argumentative essay were significantly higher than their pauses in a descriptive essay at <500, <1000 respectively. However, there were no significant differences across word boundaries over genre types. \u0000Conclusions. The current study extends the previous literature in examining the underlying cognitive processes during L2 writing tasks as the trendy issue of psycholinguistics. Knowing the cognitive processes is crucial in diagnosing the students’ difficulties in writing L2 essays as advanced technology has the potential to explore intrusively the accurate cognitive processes learners involved during writing tasks. \u0000Originality / value. This paper is innovative in examining a state-of-the-art issue and has implications to the field of psycholinguistics.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85296396","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":"Текстові повідомлення про здоров’я у релігійному дискурсі: психолінгвістичний аналіз","authors":"Nataliia Kostruba","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-1-59-82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-1-59-82","url":null,"abstract":"Мета дослідження. Для виявлення основних маркерів релігійних повідомлень здійснено психолінгвістичний аналіз текстів звернень церков України про здоров’я у релігійному дискурсі. \u0000Методики дослідження. Матеріалом для дослідження обрано публічні заяви щодо пандемії коронавірусу найчисельніших церков в Україні (православні, католики, протестанти). Загалом, було проаналізовано 8 інформаційних повідомлень, які розділялися на першу реакцію на пандемію (4 повідомлення) та офіційні рекомендації щодо поведінки у часи пандемії (4 повідомлення). Для здійснення психолінгвістичного аналізу використано комп’ютерне забезпечення Statistica 12 та Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). \u0000Результати. За допомогою комп’ютерної програми LIWC-2015 проаналізовано стильові й змістовні характеристики таких повідомлень, а також виявлено емоційні, когнітивні та структурні маркери досліджуваного тексту. Так, релігійні звернення характеризуються нейтральними емоційними маркерами. Повідомлення мають певну когнітивну складність, про що свідчать і змістовні (наявність причинно-наслідкових зав’язків та фактів), і стильові маркери (часте вживання прийменників та сполучників). Проте, якісний аналіз тексту виявив відсутність складних термінів і конструкцій, що свідчить про доступність і зрозумілість тексту для більшості людей. Повідомлення насичені даними щодо нових правил поведінки у соціумі, дистанціювання, про можливу відсутність прояву симптомів вірусу. Загалом, текст не лише інформативний, але містить й емоційно-підтримуючі вказівки та рішення, дає тимчасові поради щодо життя фізичного і духовного, закликає до молитов і смирення. Текст насичений неозначеними займенниками для акцентуації, що вірус стосується усіх. Повідомлення спрямовані на оцінку і обговорення сьогодення, без прогнозів на майбутнє. Наскрізною характеристикою усіх повідомлень є звернення до церковної залученості, а також до авторитетності влади та органів охорони здоров’я. \u0000Висновки. Текстові повідомлення про здоров’я у релігійному дискурсі характеризуються нейтральними емоційними маркерами та когнітивною простотою. Церкви шляхом масових комунікацій підтримує та поширює інформаційну позицію і настанови держави щодо COVID-19. Перспективи подальших досліджень вбачаємо у конструюванні моделі ефективного повідомлення про здоров’я. \u0000  \u0000Ключові слова: психолінгвістичні маркери, релігійний дискурс, масові комунікації, COVID-19, здоров’я, повідомлення про здоров’я.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87669306","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":"Associative Dictionaries as an Ethnic Mental Phenomenon: Basic Values in the Core of Ethnic Group Language Consciousness","authors":"Natalya V. Dmitryuk, G. Abramova","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-2-59-84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-2-59-84","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. Associative research is widely practiced in the field of sciences related to linguistics as an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the relationship of language with consciousness, psyche, and human culture; the corpus of associative data we have created in the Kazakh language replenishes associative lexicography in the context of broad intercultural comparisons. \u0000Materials and methods. The dictionaries of the associative norms of the Kazakh language (Dmitryuk, 1978; Dmitryuk, Moldalieva et al., 2014), prepared on the basis of data of free associative experiments (SAE) with 1000 Kazakh students, contain unique information about the mentality and ethnocultural characteristics of the Kazakh ethnic group in the Soviet and modern period. \u0000FAE is a well-known method of employing the associative experiment data, the reliable way to access a person’s linguistic consciousness; statistical processing of the FAE body associative data provided for the analytical comparison of a hierarchical sequence of the Kazakh basic values as a linguistic consciousness core – its central and peripheral zones – in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. \u0000Results. Due to the diachronic and interethnic comparative analysis: such basic Kazakh values as religion beliefs, freedom, sovereignty, state symbols have been subjected to the significant changes; ethnic cultural kernel preferences remained traditionally unchanged, constituting the specific essence of the ethnic national mentality: attitude to motherland, mother, elders, men, gender and age as specific peculiarities in the hierarchy of family relations. \u0000Conclusions. The intralingua comparison of the dictionaries’ contents revealed a very stable body of unchanging value priorities, indicating a fairly strong core and a significant vitality degree of Kazakh society. \u0000The work contributes to the intercultural associative research, associative lexicography and provides for the development of promising research in Psycholinguistics in Kazakhstan.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79626664","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":"Variation in the Speech of Two Palestinian Immigrant Groups","authors":"Mahmoud El Salman","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-2-199-220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-2-199-220","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. This sociolinguistic study aims to take a close look at the differences and similarities in the linguistic behavior of two Palestinian groups and analyze these in light of social and political factors. \u0000Methods. The study adopts the Labovian Paradigm, and face-to-face techniques are used to collect data. \u0000Results. The first group immigrated to Jordan from Palestine as a result of being forced from their homes in 1948. They came seeking refuge in Jordan, and, because they came from Palestine, they were treated as such. When the Arab-Israeli war began nearly two decades later, a new wave of Palestinians migrated to Jordan in 1967. Yet, at this time, their Palestinian village belonged to Jordan, politically, because Jordan had annexed the West Bank in 1950. Thus, the political status of both sets of Palestinians at the beginning of their exodus played a major role in the subsequent development of their linguistic behavior in Jordan. It influenced the kind of variation that occurred in their speech. The first people to arrive were treated as Palestinian refugees, which minimized them from a social perspective. Thus, the study shows that the middle-aged and younger generations of this ethnic group abandoned their dialect, and 98.0% of them adopted the local variant. The individuals of the second set of migrants were treated as Jordanian citizens as they had simply migrated from one part of the country, namely, the West Bank, to another part of it, namely, the East Bank (Jordan). The study found a strong correlation between an individual’s identity and the political status granted by a country. Though the members of both groups are Palestinians, the study shows that all individuals behaved linguistically differently depending how they were perceived socially and politically in Jordan. \u0000Conclusion. Palestinians emigrated in two large waves from their homeland to Jordan as the result of war. The first took place in 1948, and the second took place in 1967. The study shows that the linguistic behavior of both groups differs. The social and the political situations that each group found itself in determined, to a great extent, the linguistic behavior they adopted.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90289896","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":"Кроскультурні особливості репрезентації концепту «старість» у мовній картині сучасного світу","authors":"Natalya Tokareva, Anzhelika Kolly-Shamne, Natalya Makarenko","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-1-224-248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2021-30-1-224-248","url":null,"abstract":"Вступ. Стаття презентує результати кроскультурного аналізу проблеми когнітивно˗семантичного моделювання суб’єктивного образу старості в сучасному соціокультурному просторі. Робота була виконана в рамках авторського дослідницького проекту, спрямованого на визначення тенденцій концептуалізації вікових періодів генези буття в мовній свідомості респондентів різних вікових та соціокультурних груп. \u0000Мета статті передбачала виявлення кросскультурних особливостей мовленнєво-розумової об’єктивації концепту «Старість» в мовній картині сучасного інформаційного світу. Предмет дослідження набуває особливої актуальності в умовах демографічного старіння людства. \u0000Методи дослідження. Психолінгвістичний контент дослідження зумовив використання методу концептуального аналізу словникових дефініцій для отримання вихідного переліку інтегрованих значень базового рівня концепту «Старість». Спрямований асоціативний експеримент, контент-аналіз і семантико-інтерпретаційний аналіз даних дозволили окреслити асоціативне поле лексеми-стимулу із зазначенням абсолютної частотності кожного асоціата в площині кросскультурного вимірювання. \u0000Вибірка була представлена різновіковими респондентами (від 17 до 93 років), котрі проживають у країнах із різним рівнем соціокультурної та економічної захищеності старіння (в Україні, США, Швейцарії). \u0000Результати. За результатами вивчення 1845 асоціативних відповідей-реакцій і текстових фрагментів респондентів були виділені одиниці квантифікації семантичного поля досліджуваного концепту: ядро фізіологічний сегмент значень) і периферійна частина (соціокультурний та психологічний сегменти значень). Доведено, що соціокультурний континуум позначення феноменології старості в міжкультурному вимірі мовної картини світу моделює особливу семантичну зону мовної свідомості особистості. \u0000Висновки. Статистично підтверджено, що основні трансформації суб’єктивного образу старості в семантичному просторі мовної особистості відбуваються в сегменті соціокультурних маркерів, який в цілому обумовлює варіативні стратегії старіння особистості. \u0000Отримані результати суттєво доповнюють представлені науковим співтовариством матеріали щодо кросскультурних тенденцій концептуалізації індикаторів старіння людини в сучасному суспільстві.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80557926","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 Representation of Social and Role Identification in Subject Self-Organization of Personality","authors":"S. Dyakov","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2020-27-1-52-79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2020-27-1-52-79","url":null,"abstract":"Objective. Based on the psycholongvistic approach, which is widely represented in world personology and psychosemantics, revealing the subjective descriptive characteristics of a person, an attempt is made to build a model and diagnostic technique for mental personality self-organization (PSO). \u0000Material and method. The psycholinguistic method of theoretical structuring and systematization of scientific and theoretical data is presented in the perspective of the subjective paradigm and methodology of the system-synergetic approach (psychological and philosophical) is presented in the construction of a categorical-conceptual model of subjectivity in PSO. Based on the method of categorical-conceptual modeling, a model and methodology for semantic analysis and assessment of subjectness self-organization of personality based on individual characteristics of the experience of social-role identification, reflecting the characteristics of feelings and constructs of understanding that determine the conscious will of the subject, is developed. \u0000Results. Psycholinguistic scales of semantic constructs are highlighted of the psychic (functional and motivational) and activity (professional, business, and creative) levels of subjectivity are distinguished. The empirical material reflects the verification of the semantic model and methodology. Modified repertoire lattices by J. Kelly and expert assessment in semantic analysis and classification of constructs served as a method of collecting empirical data. An array of constructs obtained (N=2000) reflects the well-known categorical-conceptual aspects of psychic phenomena (processes-states-properties) and external environmental and sociocultural characteristics, thus revealing the socio-psychological aspects of social-role personality identification, which allows analysis and subjectness assessment. Findings. The presented semantic scales of qualities and personality traits (factors of socio-psychological identification) reveal the systemic relationship and the level structure of the PSO, and also make it possible to assess subjectness.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86489066","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":"Zoonymic Peculiarity in Feature Cartoons for Children","authors":"Анастасія Кузьменко","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-2-190-207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-2-190-207","url":null,"abstract":"Objective. The object of studying is the English texts of feature cartoons for children, while its subject is psycholinguistic peculiarity of zoonyms in feature cartoon texts. The main goal of the research is to find out the psycholinguistic organization of zoonyms in the English language feature cartoons for children. The objectives are to classify zoonyms’ origin, to differentiate sphere-sources and motivation of zoonym nomination, to highlight stylistic peculiarities of zoonyms. \u0000Materials & Methods. Specific methods and techniques are determined by the purpose and material to be analyzed, such as induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretization; longitudinal, processing and interpretation methods; psycholinguistic analysis; method of context-semantic analysis; the procedures of quantitative-qualitative calculations and the method of integral choice. Materials for the research are gathered from Paramount Pictures production, Dream Works animation, Universal Studio, Walt Disney production and the selection is the English feature cartoons for children, such as ‘The Lion King’, ‘Balto’, ‘Kung Fu Panda’, ‘Madagascar’, ‘Alpha and Omega’, ‘Shreck’, ‘Ferdinand’, ‘Puppy Dog pals’, ‘Ice Age’ etc. \u0000Results. The article dwells upon the psycholinguistic aspect of zoonyms in the English language feature cartoons for children. In the sense of changing the direction of linguistics from language to speech and communication, it is impossible to consider linguistics excluding the anthropological factors such as mentality, culture, behaviour and development of a man individually and of mankind as a whole. In this paper, the ways of forming a world view of a man are presented, which is also formed by a linguistic world view, fauna is distinguished as an emerging element of knowledge influencing on human’s cognition. Taking into account the fact that the world view about fauna is formed in the person’s mind from the first days of life observing nature, listening to the lullabies, watching cartoons, the object of this study is feature cartoons for children, and the subject is zoonyms. In the course of the research, methods and techniques such as induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, abstraction and concretization, the method of material sampling, quantitative calculation procedure are used to determine the frequency of this phenomenon usage. As a result, it is found that in the English language feature films for children, the names of the English, Scottish, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Latin and Greek origins are used in zoonymy. Spheres-sources of zoonymy are multi-anthroponyms, single anthroponyms, toponyms, names of products, fitonyms and actual names of breeds and classes of animals. Nominative motivation is outlined by external features, behaviour, application of an animal, its breed and class. Stylistic peculiarities of zoonymy in the English language feature cartoons for children are such figures as the","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77262115","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":"Psychosemantic Analysis of Psychologists’ Representations About the Place of Psychological Counseling","authors":"Наталя Афанасьєва, Наталія Світлична, Олександр Шайда","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-1-37-50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-1-37-50","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction. Psycholinguistic studies of a man as a linguistic personality open up new opportunities for scientists to develop technologies aimed to explore the role of counseling psychology in the system of psychological assistance in the representations of psychologists. The use of psycholinguistic research methods, in particular, psychosemantics helps to study the origin, structure and functions of the personal system of knowledge and definitions. \u0000Aim. The aim of the article is to highlight the research results of word associations of psychologists regarding the role of counseling psychology in the system of psychology practice. \u0000Research procedure: the study was conducted using the semantic differential scaling and the method of pairwise comparisons. Representatives of different branches of psychology who work in Ukraine took part in it. \u0000Results. It was determined that counseling psychology is a totally independent branch of assistance in the representations of the research subjects. \u0000Conclusions: the psycho-semantic research of psychologists’ word associations applyong the semantic differential scaling and the method of pairwise comparisons of all types of psychological therapy according to the criterion of similarity-difference has determined the role of counseling psychology in psychosemantic space. The more the phenomena, stimuli, objects studied are subjectively similar in the generalized psychosemantic space, the closer the indicators of these stimuli are located in the space of signs. Based on such a remote model, subjective data according to the differences of one stimulus from another their mutual arrangement are reconstructed in the space of several signs. The distance between these objects is an indicator of the differences. The research proves that psychological counseling is a totally independent branch of assistance in the representations of the psychologists.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84863772","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":"Information Entropy in Translation: Psycholinguistic Aspects","authors":"Маргарита Дорофеєва, Тетяна Андрущенко","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-2-91-113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-2-91-113","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the category of informational entropy in the source text as a matter of translation psycholinguistics. The informational entropy of the lexical units on different levels in the source text refers to subjective factors that reduce the translation quality. Lexical units-carriers of the source text’s informational entropy cause informational deficits in the translator’s consciousness. \u0000The aim of the search is to consider the category of informational entropy from the standpoint of psycholinguistics and cognitive translation theory, identify the causes of informational entropy, establish linguistic and genre-stylistic markers of the lexical entropy units in the source text, identify ways to minimize entropy in the specialized translation. \u0000The research procedure involves a psycholinguistic experiment with the participation of 85 informants with semi-professional translation status. The participants produced a German-Ukrainian translation of a specialized text, in which the number of lexical units contained informational entropy as a percentage of the total words’ number was 17.9%. \u0000The results of the translation’s comparative analysis indicate similar psycholinguistic mechanisms for understanding lexical units with informational entropy, leading to false translation solutions in the target texts. Such mechanisms include an incorrect choice of the translation method and a lack of attention to the extralinguistic information in the source text. \u0000The conclusions of the psycholinguistic experiment confirm the universal nature of the informational entropy, resulting in translation quality degradation. The psycholinguistic factor for the false translation solutions is an automatic suppression the contextual meaning of the source text’s lexical item by its subject-logical meaning in the translator’s mind, realized in the incorrect choice of the translation method.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76932518","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":"Psycholinguistic Preconditions of Gradation Functioning in the Individual World Picture","authors":"Людмила Марчук, Олег Анатолійович Рарицький","doi":"10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-2-278-295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31470/2309-1797-2019-26-2-278-295","url":null,"abstract":"Aim of the research. To describe objective and subjective factors of language semantic interpretation of gradation thinking content (psychological and linguistic aspects in gradation semantics). \u0000Research methods. The article describes the foundations of distinguishing functional and semantic gradation category in the Ukrainian language which is reflected in the units of different levels. The linguistic cognitive character of the investigation is proved within these notions, as one of the principle tasks of the work is to determine mental anthropocentric and psychological factors of emerging gradation utterances in the Ukrainian language, which demonstrate the unity of linguistics and psychology, language and speech. The methodology consisted in comparing the materials of gradation in different levels, carrying out hypothetic modeling of the gradation scale on the basis of functioning gradation verbal markers, determining psychological foundations for gradation functioning in the individual picture of the world. The interaction of the objective (conceptual world of the gradated O) and the subjective (emotional and intellectual sphere of the gradator S) worlds creates the gradation fragment in a language, its orientation concerning the gradation dimension (O – object, S – subject of gradation). \u0000Results. The investigation of the motivation, semantic accentuation and communicators character, i.e. the inner world of the speaker and listener, text author and reader, enabled to code and decode the information given in the text. For decoding we identified the gradation units and explicated them on the sentence (text) level, distinguished pragmatic structures with redundant information. Thus the problem of certain stereotypes as the norm of environment perception, deviations from the norm was partially solved and the possibilities of reconstructing the quality characteristics of the language world picture were expanded. \u0000Conclusion. The choice of the verbal implementation for gradation category is carried out by the author of the communication act, it is subordinated to particular psychological regularities, which are general for human language but mentally individual concerning the communicator personality and individual language picture of the world.","PeriodicalId":42961,"journal":{"name":"Psycholinguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2019-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73744403","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}