ENERGETIC INTERACTION OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL MEANS IN ADOLESCENTS’ SUGGESTIVE SPEECH: METHODOLOGY FOR THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

The article presents a generalized program and methodology for the experimental study of the energy interaction system between verbal and non-verbal means of adolescents’ suggestive speech. The study is conducted within the framework of Speech Energetics Theory and employs its idea of emotional- and-pragmatic potential, which is believed to accurately convey the idea of adolescents’ suggestive speech and therefore further facilitate successful interaction of its verbal and non-verbal means. The relevance of the study is defined by general scarcity of current enquiries highlighting the necessity of the additional development of partial methodological provisions and procedures directly aimed at substantiation of the generalized program and methodology of experimental research on verbal and non- verbal means’ interaction in adolescents’ suggestive speech. The article theoretical basis is a systematic methodological concept that serves as the main elements of a comprehensive methodology for studying psycho-energetic interaction of verbal and non-verbal means in human communicative behavior in general and speech communication in particular, set out by the Ukrainian author of a new speech energetics theory, Professor Alla Kalyta. The research methods employed in the article are generalization, formalization, abstraction, modeling, as well as descriptive, systematic, and theoretical analyses. The study demonstrates that the elements of the classification of universal features characterizing adolescent suggestive speech can be differentiated into seven hierarchical levels, namely: types of communication, speaker’s environment, speaker’s communicative status, speaker’s type of temperament, gender, speaker’s age and period or phase of development, emotional and pragmatic potentials of the acts of speech behavior. Four systems of interrelated factors are considered as follows: 1 – social and political, 2 – situational and communicative, 3 – psycho-genetic, 4 – physiological and state. Considering this, the article advances a model that depicts the influence of the system of these factors on psychic mechanisms underlying actualization of the adolescent’s suggestive speech behavior, emerging in the system of their spiritual being. The model is differentiated into three autonomous spheres: existential, mental, and transcendental. The model of a supervenient interaction of verbal and non-verbal means of adolescent’s communicative behavior reflects the mechanism generating the alternative utterance meanings, being actualized by the adolescent through concepts-notions and concepts-actions acquired by their memory due to previous communicative and social experience. The results demonstrate that the program and methodology of the experimental study of the interaction between verbal and non-verbal means in adolescents’ suggestive speech can serve as methodological guidelines for comparing, verifying, and generalizing the results of various studies on communicative behavior.