Psychology of speech and psycholinguistics in Institute of Psychology, RAS

The laboratory's researches on psychology of speech and psycholinguistics for the last five years are presented. There were studied the nature of speech and its functioning in individual life and society. The main subject of researches is intentional structure of speech studied on the data of texts of Russian politicians. The method of texts intent-analysis was elaborated and the estimation of its validity was revealed, their hierarchical organization and dynamics were shown, individual and situational variations were elicited. The system of intentional presentations distributed by mass media is considered. There were analyzed the peculiarities of speech influences in different social situations. Intentionality development in ontogenesis was traced. The psychological model of argumentative strategy was developed. The problem of texts expertise was considered, too. The psychological model of metaphor was put forward. The problems of semantics and speech diagnostics were studied also.