Open AccessTHE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF HYPNOTIC DISCOURSE (CASE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE HYPNOTIC TEXTS)
Author(s) -
Maksym Karpenko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
naukovij vìsnik pìvdennoukraïnsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo pedagogìčnogo unìversitetu ìmenì k.d. ušinsʹkogo. lìngvìstičnì nauki/naukovij vìsnik pìvdennoukraïnsʹkogo nacìonalʹnogo pedagogìčnogo unìversitetu ìm. k.d. ušinsʹkogo. lìngvìstičnì nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-2662
pISSN - 2616-5317
DOI - 10.24195/2616-5317-2019-28-10
Subject(s) - hypnosis , psychology , trance , hypnotic , context (archaeology) , cognitive psychology , phenomenon , sociology , epistemology , medicine , philosophy , psychiatry , paleontology , alternative medicine , pathology , anthropology , biology
The linguistic features of hypnotic communication in the context of psychotherapy are outlined. This area is topical due to insufficient knowledge in spite ofthe significant role of the speech component in the process of hypnotic suggestionand, as a result, the interest of researchers in it. The aim of our research is tocharacterize the phenomenon of hypnotic discourse and dwell on the basic linguistic peculiarities of hypnotic communication. The object of our research is thehypnotic discourse in the Chinese and English languages, the mechanisms of conducting a hypnotic communicative act in these two languages serve as its subject.Recordings of hypnotherapists’ speech during performing hypnosis serve as thematerial for our study. The article describes various approaches to understandinghypnosis, and also identifies common features in them: 1) a decrease in the degreeof awareness of the environment and the intensity of human psychomotor activity,which resembles sleep; 2) this process is the result of the cooperation of a person, who is referred to as a client, with a person who is referred to as a therapist; 3)an increase in the likelihood of successful suggestion. The algorithm of a typicalhypnotic session was outlined, namely, it commonly includes such components asinduction, suggestion, and termination of the trance. The linguistic patterns usedby the hypnotherapist to elicit a hypnotic trance state in the client are analysedin the study. In particular, two groups of such patterns were identified: those thatuse universal laws for modeling causal relationships (they include such patternsas pseudological connection using conjunctions, implicit causative, explicit causative, and implication of understanding deep cognitive processes), and those thatlead to transderivational search (they include generalized reference index andviolation of selectional restriction). The analysis and comparison of the Englishand Chinese material was carried out to identify the peculiarities of the usage ofthe abovementioned linguistic patterns in each of these two languages.