PSYCHOLINGUISTIC IMAGE OF JOY (IN THE COMPUTER-ANIMATED FILM INSIDE OUT)

Маргарита Бережна

doi:10.31470/10.31470/2706-7904-2021-16-32-35

Abstract

The paper is focused on the correlation between the psychological archetype of a film character and the linguistic elements composing their speech. The Nurturer archetype is represented in the film Inside Out by the personalized emotion Joy. Joy is depicted as an antropomorphous female character, whose purpose is to keep her host, a young girl Riley, happy. As the Nurturer, Joy is completely focused on Riley’s happiness, which is expressed by lexico-semantic group ‘happy’, positive evaluative tokens, exclamatory sentences, promissive speech acts, and repetitions. She needs the feeling of connectedness with other members of her family, which is revealed by lexico-semantic groups ‘support’ and ‘help’. She is ready to sacrifice everything to save the girl in her care, which is demonstrated by modal verbs, frequent word-combination ‘for Riley’, and directives.

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ВступNowadays the art of cinema is an undeniable part of a highly globalized world
The goal of the study is to reveal the correlation between the psychological archetype of the leading character in the computer-animated film Inside Out and linguistic elements composing her speech
I take the classification of film archetypes by Schmidt (Schmidt, 2007: 70-75)

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The cinematic modality of realism or ‘continuous reality’ that lends itself to aesthetics offers a creative field that allows for the exploration of inner images and the insights of analytical psychology. Archetypes: (a) are story characters, (b) are represented psychologically as mental models like self- and other-schemas and prototypes, and (c) often elicit intense emotional responses when encountered. Such archetypes (d) operate at an automatic or unconscious level, and (e) are culturally enduring so as to be learned and widely recognizable (Faber & Mayer, 2009: 308)

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