East European Journal of Psycholinguistics

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Authors: Oleksandr Kapranov

The present article described syntactic performance by an English/Swedish bilingual participant with Asperger syndrome. The participant’s syntactic performance was investigated by means of observing the participant’s status updates onFacebook, a social networking platform. Two observation sessions involved one week each, with the interval of six months between the sessions.It was theorised that the bilingual participant’s syntactic performance would be exacerbated by code-switching. The participant’s data were tagged in computer software CLAN. Results of the data analysis indicated that the hypothesis was not supported: the participant’s syntactic performance exhibited no presence of code-switching. Data analysis indicated that there was no significant difference in the participant’s syntactic performance in the period of six months. Keywords: Asperger syndrome, code-switching, English, early balanced bilingual, syntactic performance, Swedish

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Authors: Alla Musiyenko, Tetiana Tykhonova

The article deals with the problem of the development of listening skills at the lessons of foreign languages. A range of methods and techniques is proposed. The authors share their experience in the sphere of usage the supplementary methods such as questionnaires, scales of diagnostics and self-diagnostics, psychological tests, etc. “Diagnostic and self-diagnostic scale of listening skills”, its structure and different ways of teaching techniques are given. This scale provides a teacher with the objective data of listening skill development of each student and group as a whole. This method helps to involve each student into the listening task, stimulates an adequate differentiation and assessment of one’s listening skills. In its turn it stimulates the development and implementation of different teaching techniques. It leads to individual and group effectiveness. Such questionnaires as “Are you a good listener?” and “Level of your communicative control” may be a good stimulus for conscious speaking control. These techniques were used for foreign language teaching and proved to be efficient. Keywords: listening skills, diagnostics, self-assessment, communicative control, psychological and pedagogical means.

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Authors: Rieko Matsuoka

As early as 1799, Humboldt initiated to wonder the gravity of ‘language’. Indeed, there exists much diversity in linguistic forms in human societies and, translation is necessary in order to share literary works, among different language users. During the process of translating culturally-colored discourse, some important features of a given society may well be revealed. As an empirical example, a script of rakugo, which is the traditional Japanese performance art of telling comic stories, is used as the data for analysis because rakugo can be regarded as a genre of natural, spoken Japanese discourse. In fact, Katz (as cited in Wardy, 2006) suggests that linguistic relativity threatens universal inter-translatability. In this study, focusing on zero personal pronouns, the notion of linguistic relativity is examined, related to the Japanese sense of self and the Japanese worldview that includes seken (life-world). This seems to reveal linguistic relativity (e.g., Humboldt 1999; Sapir 1921/2004) that different perspectives on reality often manifest themselves as specific features of language use in speech communities, as some empirical studies have been conducted, starting with Humboldt’s original research (1999) on the Kawi language. Keywords: linguistic relativity, zero personal pronouns, low-context society, high-context society, seken (life-world), Japanese sense of self

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Authors: Diana Terekhova

The free associative experiment is the traditional language awareness method of studying. Language consciousness investigations via associative experiments permit to represent the system of linguistic consciousness (not only the extent of a certain words in their reflections in mind) as a coherent and cohesive unit. It shows a unique picture of the world in each culture. The article is devoted to comparative psycholinguistic analyses of the associative fields of the words-stimuli МИР / МИР / МІР (peace). Common and specific features of the corresponding parts of the world reflection in minds of the Ukrainians, the Russians and the Byelorussians are described in it. Associative gestalt was used in our research to make a structure of all the research associative materials. The nuclear and periphery of the associative gestalt was defined in each language under analyses. The largest differences are found: 1) in different number of zones among three gestalts; 2) in existence of separate zones just in a certain gestalt in contrast to others; 3) in different zones’ degree that defines their rank and position in gestalts; 4) in quantitative and qualitative zones’ composition; 5) in gestalt kernels. Keywords: the world reflection, linguistic consciousness, associative experiment, associative field, associative gestalt.

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Authors: Diana Kalishchuk

The article deals with the notion of suggestion as one of the main features of modern political discourse, the processes of deletion, generalization and distortion of information, that cause non-identity between the deep informational content of the utterance and it’s represented version and therefore are used to influence the addressee, are described; language means used to realize the process of generalization are defined and analyzed, namely: universal quantifiers, including some adverbs and pronouns; modal operators of obligation / possibility, such as modal verbs with the meaning of obligation / possibility, and other parts of speech (adjectives, adverbs, particles), semantics of which presupposes necessity or obligation of some actions; intensifiers, which modify the pragmatic meaning of the utterance and therefore intensify the impact on the addressee. Keywords: suggestion, generalization, universal quantifiers, modal operators, intensifiers.

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Authors: Olha Vasyliuk

The paper presents the results of the theoretical and empirical study of the possibilities of using autobiographical narrative for diagnosing the traumatic memory of the individual. The views of foreign and local psychologists on the nature of the generation of narrative, it’s using as a powerful psychotherapeutic tool. The features of representation experience and selectivity of consciousness regarding to its preservation have been described. The empirical study was based on the method of autobiographical narrative with the topic: “Traumatic event in my life” and Mississippi scale for assessing post-traumatic stress reactions. Based on the data analysis of psycholinguistic autobiographical narrative was created three-level scale ratio, that typical only for texts with traumatic content. We described the characteristics of psycholinguistic indicators, which can serve as guidelines in the diagnostic study of the traumatic experience of the individual. According to the features of writing autobiographical narrative by diagnosed, done its division into four types: ambivalent, neutral, negative and positive. Estimated level of posttraumatic stress disorder of patients and based on these data, done the analysis of the relationship between the type of autobiographical narrative and the level of posttraumatic stress disorder. Offered and proved the feasibility of using autobiographical narrative as a diagnostic tool in the study of traumatic memory of the individual. Keywords: autobiographical narrative, psycholinguistic analysis, traumatic memories, post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Authors: Zhanna Virna

The paper is focused on the study of the political conflict image from the perspective of psychosemantics. The integral psychosemantic approach to the political conflict allowed establishing semantic universals viewed as students’ evaluation of the conflict’s image. Among the parameters were active, dangerous, open, rational, moral, close, aggressive, etc. The results of the students’ semantic space study through the semantic differential showed that the semantic constructs of “political conflict” image as reflected in the minds of the students, and “real political conflict” image are different, since the reality is able to change their cognitive interpretation and emotional attitude. Keywords: individual mind, world image, semantic universals, political conflict image, real political conflict image, student youth.

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Authors: Natalya Fomina, Marina Mirchetich

The paper presents complex research results of texts as products of individual speech activity of students with different signaling system domination, in particular their linguistic, speech, substantial-semantic features and motivational, emotional, regulative, cognitive, dynamic characteristics of authors. the results of the study have shown that the students with the first signaling system domination tended to be more emotional, dynamic, communication and speech-oriented, despite many grammar errors and large text size. By contrast, the students with the second signaling system domination tended to be less emotional, dynamic and less imaginative, but more . Their texts contained a number of abstract words, non-relevant repetitions, complex sentences with causal and conditional subordinate clauses. Keywords: text, speech activity, personality, students, signaling systems, linguistic characteristics of speech, psychological features of speech activities.

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Authors: Valentyna Halatska

The article studies the realization of a communicative act (theatre reality – journalist reader) through the forms of author’s consciousness expressing. Esthetic and communicative effect, which is realized through particular psycholinguistic means and produces effective form of intercultural dialogue, is analysed. In today’s Ukrainian journals media aspect of theatrical art is represented in the active out – of- subject forms of expressing author’s consciousness. These forms can be found in informational (short article, dialogue interview, portrait-interview) and analythical (review) genres, style peculiarities of the materials and others. Formal and subject arrangement of theatrical publicism is characterized by methaphorical vision of theatrical reality and dialectical description of the material. Subject arrangement of the works of today’s theatrical publicism in Ukraine expressed in the genres of interview in which the main notions of K. Stanislavskyi’s system are transformed into psycholinguistic definitions of “motive”, purpose and “activity script”. The research of the forms of expressing author’s consciousness in theatrical publicism in today’s Ukraine is considered to be prospective because of the productivity of interdiscipline approach to the problem, as well as, the back of analyses of the theory of art social communication. Keywords: author image, subjective and extra-subjective forms of expressing author vision, genre, style, psycholinguistec effect.

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Authors: Larysa Kalmykova, Inna Mysan

The article discusses the problem of phraseologisms as a multidimensional scientific phenomenon, which can be regarded as different units, such as: psychological, psycholinguistic and linguistic; lighting of psycholinguistic principles derived from an understanding of phraseological units as psycholinguistic ones: special blocks of economical, precise, well-aimed and witty production and speech understanding as well as introduction of these principles in the field of applied psycholinguistics, in particular in psycholinguistics of development and a subordinate to it in theoretical and methodological sense linguistics; disclosure on the material of specific experimental study of the author’s experience with taking into account the psycholinguistic basics when developing a method of speech enrichment by phraseological units of the senior preschool children with a view to its development. Keywords: psycholinguistic units, psychological units, linguistic units, psycholingvodidactic principles lingvodidactic principles.

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Authors: Liudmyla Malimon, Alla Pashkina

The article deals with the value-normative regulation of professional work in the framework of state service. The concept of “values” and their impact on individual and organizational behavior of the individual has been analysed. The concept of “organizational values”, which are formed at the intersection of individual and organizational consciousness and a powerful tool for the development of organizational culture. The authors have determined that the basic sources of forming values of public service employees is Ukrainian legislation , which outlines the requirements for the implementation of values of professional work in this field. The psycholinguistic method of content analysis used in the study helped examine the content of a number of legislative axiological documents. The tool is an adequate procedure for the organization and carrying out of the study. It envisaged the designing of encoding matrix, scorecard, instruction encoder list (catalog) to analyze the documents. As a result of content analysis along with data factor analysis, basic values of sectoral legislation in the state service have been established. The adherence to the declared values is viewed as a prerequisite that the activities of civil servants correspond to legal requirements and institution charter. Personality values can serve as an additional incentive to increase the organizational efficiency. Keywords: organizational values , public service, industry regulations , content analysis , factor analysis.

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Authors: Volodymyr Khomyk, InessaFilippova

The paper is an attempt to explain the aggressive lexicon of adolescents. This explanation was based on the constructive-developmental theory of R. Kegan. Comparison of empirical data meaning-making evolution of identity predisposed to aggression youths with displays of their aggressive lexicon in intense interpersonal interactions indicate that the lexicon spokesmen of the Imperial stage of development a common with others reality is not shared, meaning the voice of his «antipode» they are constructed as a hindrance to achieving their own purposes and they are able to follow in the conditions of conflict largely one point of view without a broader context awareness, when part is taken as the whole and demonstrate lack of ability to subordinate perceived injustice to a more complex system. The young man asserts itself as an active elaborater of objection experience and is self so as is not other. At the next Interpersonal stage adolescents, given that the source of their self-definition is another person, his points of view are perceived as being occasionally provoke them to use aggressive lexic. The young man is inseparable from the psychological influence of another, does not differentiate himself from this influence, sees it as part of himself and he is aware of the dispute as an attack on themselves. Their attention doesn’t draw a personality in itself, but only information about the personality, his psychological profile, no other’s mastery, but his status. Instead of the ability to play with a difference of opposites, they play their game with labeling of peers that are counterproductive tactics. Use of aggressive lexicon in disputes amounts to a lost of opportunity to learn through conflict by a process of insight. Keywords: construction of meaning, subject, object, imperial stage of identity development, interpersonal identity development stage, aggressive language.

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Authors: Tetiana Pastryk, Oksana Kykhtiuk

This article describes the hermeneutic approach, which is used to study the model of сonсeptual productive bilingual translator activity. This allows examining and, by means of hermeneutic method, detecting features of translator that cause conative, cognitive-linguistic and personal strategies. The hermeneutic method is aimed at constructing the model of сonсeptual productive bilingual translator through the text as a product of his activity. The study of the text makes it possible to identify the peculiarities of business interpreter and efficiency of the basic translation strategies and personal, сonative and cognitive- linguistic. Application psyсhographology method and analysis of written text hermeneutic method of studying the original text and translation proves great potential method of textual interpretation. Keywords: translator, hermeneutic method, productive bilingualism, strategies, and text.

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Authors: Nataliya Kharchenko

The paper is focused on the analysis of the researches by L. S. Vygotsky, A. V. Zaporozhets, D. B. Elkonin, N. S. Karpinskaya, L. A. Kalmykova, A. V. Leontiev, V. S. Mukhina, A. I. Nikiforova, L. S. Slavina, B. M. Teplov in the context of listening skills of preschool children. It has been proved that the problem of listening skills development in preschool children is closely related to the study of artistic-aesthetic perception features of literary texts and understanding the means of expressiveness by children along with the genesis of understanding extended utterances by preschoolers. Analysis of psychological, psycho-pedagogical, ontolinguistic and not numerous psycholinguistic researches showed potential of preschoolers to perceive and understand the extended utterances. Keywords: listening, perception of speech, understanding of speech, utterance, text, preschoolers.

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Authors: Oksana Ivanashko, Nataliya Vichalkovska

The influence of psychological factors on the pedagogical communication style of future teacher is examined. Under the pedagogical communication style we mean individual and typological peculiarities of social and psychological interaction of teacher and pupils. It depends on personal characteristics of the teacher and communication situation parameters. Pedagogical activity style is accompanied by behavior styles. Each style suggests the dominance of monological or dialogical forms of communication. The interrelation of future professional activity specificity and communication function development, availability level of organizational skills is analyzed. The study of learning style characteristics of communication. The study of pecularities of educational communication style is carried out. Properly used individual style of pedagogical communication assists in solving the whole complex of tasks: pedagogical effect becomes adequate for teacher’s personality, communication process with audience becomes pleasant, procedure of establishing interrelations with pupils is essentially facilitated, increases efficiency of information transfer. Made conclusions indicate the need to create conditions for the providing of controlled entring of graduates into the pedagogical profession. Keywords: communication preparedness, pedagogical communication style, communication forms, communicational skills, organizational skills, verbal means.