N. Alefirenko, A. Alefirenko
NEUROPSYCHIC MECHANISMS OF DISCOURSE GENERATION AS A COMMUNICATIVE EVENT: PROLEGOMENA
Abstract. The problems of interaction between linguistic and neuropsychological factors of discourse formation as a pre-speech process are considered. The central concept is discourse in its cognitivist understanding. The sources of discourse genesis are defined. The neurophysiological basis of discourse generation as a communicatively significant event from the point of view of cooperation between the left and right cerebral hemispheres is substantiated. Neuropsychological mechanisms for transformation of synergetic (nonlinear) discursive thinking into linear speech activity generating statement/text are projected. It shows the dependence of linear construction of textual elements on the pre-speech factors: motive, intention (traces of all accumulated by the communicant linguistic and extralinguistic experience, preliminary assessment of the discursive situation, intents and goals of the communicative act, the intended ways of influence on the recipient), the work of discursive consciousness (frame organization of the representation of the communicative event in the frame slots, filling which is the basis of nomination). The units of internal coding are “meanings”, which represent elements of the communicative event reflected in the discursive consciousness and project such components of the utterance as subject, predicate and object. Mental mechanisms of discourse formation operate in a two-level mode. At the first level, the brain cortex searches for traces of verbal signals together with impressions of the referent images of the words selected for naming. The combined representation of sound and object images forms a structured grid of temporal relations, which serves as a substrate of inner speech. Then, at the second level of discourse formation, a new network of connections between the substrate elements of the communicative event is generated, thus forming a “verbal-semantic network”.
Keywords: discoursoporation, neuropsychic mechanisms, frame, mental lexicon, predicate actants, synergy, linearization of speechmaking.