The article is devoted to the problem of mental state associative speech representation. The study involved 31 Russian-speaking subjects (27 females and 4 males) at the age of 18 -22 years old. The experimental procedure using DMDX program allowed to measure the time of speech response to stimuli -the concepts of 25 mental states. The average reaction time to the concepts of mental states, shown on the computer monitor, made 2114.68 milliseconds. The most rapid associative speech response was the response to the following stimuli: "ecstasy" (1452.54 msec), "meditation" (1569.26 msec), "tranquility" (1685.21 msec), the slowest response is the response to "interest" (2517.5 msec) and "indecision" (2454.63 msec). In total, 448 associations were given to the concepts of 25 mental states by tested subjects -speech reactions, i.e. 17.9 associations per mental state on the average. The greatest number of speech associations (24) was given to the concept of love. The smallest number was given to the concept of ecstasy (11 associations). Associative fields of mental states (meditation, ecstasy, melancholy, tiredness, loneliness) have the most pronounced core. The prospects of the study consist in the performance of a similar associative experiment among the representatives of another culture, as well as in the studying of an estimated and situational associative representation of mental states.
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An ever-increasing need for quality textbooks and objective linguistic expertise encourages more intensive research into complexity of academic discourse. The current research focuses on lexical density viewed as an effective complexity predictor and defined as the ratio of content words per number of words in a text. Being predominantly quantitative, the study also examines dynamics of Flesh-Kincaid grade levels and ratios of parts of speech across 12 Science and Social Studies textbooks taught in Grades 7 -12 of American schools. The analysis shows a consistent pattern of strong positive growth of nouns and adjectives across grade levels, while lexical verbal elements slightly decrease across the textbooks. The total adverb count changes slightly, and its movement vector depends on the discourse: it rises in Social Studies textbooks and is stable in Science textbooks. This multidirectional movement of components in Lexical density structure explains its
The article describes the classification of Russian pragmatical and discourse markers, based on the corpus of scientific speech, which numbers 34076 word usages. A corpus of spoken academic speech, compiled for the research, contains transcripts of eight speakers having an academic degree in Biology or Medicine who delivered their speeches during conferences in 2015-2016. The purpose of this article is to describe the selection parameters and semantic features of pragmatic and discursive markers that function in oral scientific discourse. The classification of discursive markers in this study is based on the theoretical principles of the Moscow linguistic school and, in particular, the theory of V. V. Vinogradov. When describing pragmatic markers, preference is given to the classification of N. V. Bogdanova-Beglaryan as being the most complete and relevant to the research material-modern Russian texts generated in high professional discourse. A contrastive discourse analysis, combined with a semantic analysis, showed that discourse markers, traditionally used for textual coherence, can acquire functions of pragmatic markers and provide social and interpersonal cohesion.
In the modern EFL paradigm, pre-task planning time is viewed as a norm. Pre-task planning time is one of the central concerns of teachers, test-developers, as well as researchers. Pre-task planning is planning a speech before performing a task, and it also involves rehearsal and strategic planning. The paper addresses the problem of pre-task planning advisability for A2 Russian EFL speakers. The research presented in this paper examines the structure, breakdown, repair, syntactic complexity, lexical diversity as well as the accuracy of the discourse produced by 145 Russian participants of the English language competition held in Kazan, Russia, in January 2020. The discourse analysis revealed that the pre-task time is used by A2 EFL speakers not only to focus on a dialog but also to elicit a topic text from memory, thus focusing on form rather than meaning. Hence, in A2 tests prioritizing meaning over form and measuring the ability for spontaneous speech, the one-minute pre-task planning time is viewed as questionable.
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