PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FEATURES OF IMAGINATION AS A COMPONENT OF LUDIC COMPETENCE

Iuliia Kobzieva,Iia Gordiienko-Mytrofanova,Serhii Sauta

doi:10.21303/2504-5571.2020.001128

Iuliia Kobzieva, Iia Gordiienko-Mytrofanova + Show 1 more

Open Access

https://doi.org/10.21303/2504-5571.2020.001128

Copy DOI

Abstract

Ludic competence is an integral part of the professional competence of would-be psychologists; the psycholinguistic features of imagination are in turn an integral component of the ludic competence. We used the method of applied psycholinguistic research in order to define and explain the psycholinguistic features of imagination as a component of the ludic competence. The main stage of the research was a free association test with the stimulus word “imagination”, as the most elaborated technique of semantic analysis. The psycholinguistic features of imagination as a notion that belongs to the inner world and as a component of the ludic competence were reflected in everyday linguistic consciousness as three core (more than 10 %) semantic clusters: (a) associates that reflect psychological processes and states (54.5 %); (b) associates that are connected with creative activity (25.5 %); and (c) associates that describe the outside world (11 %). Imagination was mostly represented by lexemes with abstract semantics. The semantic content of the word “imagination” did not depend on gender identification. Both male and female respondents showed a positive emotional attitude to the stimulus “imagination” and evaluated it as something positive. Our data confirm that the psycholinguistic experiment and the method of free association, in particular, can be extensively applied beyond linguistics and prove to be rather effective.

Highlights

The present article continues a series of articles, devoted to playfulness as a stable personality trait [1, 2]
In Ukraine, we are among the few researchers, studying playfulness [3] with the help of psycholinguistic methods and psycholinguistic experiments in particular, the main stage of which is free association test
Understanding the nature of playfulness with the help of psycholinguistic experiments reconstructs its essential characteristics as semantic components that are actualised in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers, “as a unity of all its constituent semantic components that vary in intensity and can be either core or peripheral” [4, p. 99]

Summary

Introduction

The present article continues a series of articles, devoted to playfulness as a stable personality trait [1, 2]. The ludic competence is formed alongside with the development of playfulness, which is a stable personality trait in the modern world of gamification. Playfulness manifests itself in how a person creatively adapts to the reality of their own “Self” (individual identity) and to the reality of the World (social identity), accepting this task as an exciting challenge. Understanding the nature of playfulness with the help of psycholinguistic experiments reconstructs its essential characteristics as semantic components that are actualised in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers, “as a unity of all its constituent semantic components that vary in intensity and can be either core or peripheral” [4, p. Understanding the nature of playfulness with the help of psycholinguistic experiments reconstructs its essential characteristics as semantic components that are actualised in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers, “as a unity of all its constituent semantic components that vary in intensity and can be either core or peripheral” [4, p. 99]

Objectives

Methods

Results

Discussion

Conclusion