Percularities of Altered Linguistic Consciousness in Mental Disorders

Abstract

Altered linguistic consciousness observed in mental disorders has been investigated. Altered linguistic consciousness is considered as a state of consciousness that occurs as a result of neuropsychological pathology. The article presents the analysis of the forms of manifestation of polyphony of altered linguistic consciousness in mental disorders and the key ideas that generate it. The material for the analysis was the patients’ diary records (50 «voice» record entries) and the results of a survey (interview) with native speakers with mental disorders. The survey involved 15 people. The terms non-verbalizable personality and unverbalizable utterances have been introduced to describe the altered linguistic consciousness. Analysis of the research material has allowed us to distinguish two forms of the manifestation of polyphony of the altered linguistic consciousness – a dialogue and a polylogue. The dialogue is presented in the form of a conversation between a non-verbalizable linguistic personality and a real linguistic personality. The polylogue is presented in the form of a conversation of a real linguistic personality with several non-verbalizable linguistic personalities simultaneously. The analysis of diary entries made it possible to single out the following key ideas that generate the linguistic consciousness of a native speaker with mental disorders: the actualization of the symbolic function of the object of reality, the idea of arranged surveillance, the idea of egocentrism, belief in one’s supernatural (extrasensory) abilities.