Psycholinguistic methods for creolized text analysis

Abstract

The paper studies contemporary problems of creolized texts connected with the methods of analysis of perception and understanding of a text by the reader. It is argued that most of the methods focus on the solution of applied tasks of reading. The urgent issues of creolized text psycholinguistics are described, among them: poly-code structure, strategies of perception and representation. We give an overview of research methods used for the analysis of creolized texts in Russian linguistics. The methods of psycholiguistic research of creolized text perception are discussed: instrumental means of neuro- and psychophysiological diagnostics and eye tracking technology. The goals of perception analysis are listed. The methods of creolized text meaning representation are given in the paradigm of cognitive structures. Qualitative (definition of the concepts, links based on association, adjacency or contrast) and quantitative (statistical) procedures of meaning representation by the reader are described.