CHANGE AS A SUBJECT OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH

The article discusses one of the modern psycholinguistic topics of  research,  which  is  the  issue  of  identification  and comprehension of "markers of change" - artificial (utterances) and  natural  (events)  indicators  of  changes  in  a  person’s functioning and the development of his or her relations with other people, as well as the methodologies used to study these indicators. Analysing the scripts of psychological counseling – the  practice  aimed  at  promoting  personal  development, stimulating a person to make productive changes in his or her life and comprehend it – the author considers the main features of these techniques and basic ways to identify "markers of change".

The analysis of “markers of changes” proposed in the present study  relies  on  the  fact  that  everything  in  the  world  is interconnected  and,  therefore,  even  the  most  destructive, dangerous events and phenomena can be identified, prevented or corrected in one way or another. Drawing on this, the author highlights the ineluctability of changes and argues that any such change may cause serious transformations.

Author’s reasoning is based on the differentiation of explicit and implicit signals, which active and accurate identification not only allows you to predict the “unpredictable”, but also helps intervene in the course of the processes, adjusting them with minimum material, psychological and mental resources involved. The author concludes that the meaning manifests itself not in a single “marker of changes”, but in their series, and the efficiency of their identification directly depends on the skills of “active listening”.

The study ultimately proves that “markers of changes” can be allocated in research works focusing on comparative analysis of texts and scripts as “scraps of reality”: the intertext model of comprehension helps not only recognise the existence of explicit and implicit (“weak”) signals able to radically alter the way reality is being comprehended, but also develop the methods for successful  intervention  in  a  person’s  development  and  the evolution of his relations with others, as well as reconstruct his or her development and functioning patterns in general.