Manifestations Of Consciousness Research Articles

Voluntary turnover of high achievers: A systems psychodynamics analysis with CIBART

Orientation: Voluntary turnover is a costly and frequently disruptive organisational phenomenon, particularly when it involves high achievers.Research purpose: The study aimed to develop a psychodynamic exposé of voluntary turnover by applying the conflict, identity, boundaries, authority, roles and task (CIBART) model to the lived experiences of high achievers.Motivation for the study: The research primarily focusses on voluntary turnover as an individual, rational decision-making process. It recognises the contribution of unconscious systems psychodynamics to voluntary turnover. Research conducted from this perspective is necessary to gain a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the topic.Research approach/design and method: Seven case studies of individual voluntary turnover were conducted in a large private retail company. Data were collected using free association narrative (FANI) interviews. The analysis of the data was guided by hermeneutic phenomenology, and the interpretive frame used was the CIBART model.Main findings: Six themes were constructed to describe the conflict dynamics along each of the six CIBART dimensions. Within each theme, the conflict dynamic is exposed, revealing the subsequent anxiety and defences that accumulate leading to the decision to leave. Ultimately, the six themes synthesise to propose that voluntary turnover is a conscious manifestation, yet an unconscious defence against system-wide conflict.Practical/managerial implications: Facilitating leaders’ understanding and processing of the conflict dynamics that occur across the CIBART dimensions, and which contribute to voluntary turnover, create opportunities for both transformation and prevention.Contribution/value-add: The research offers insights into the psychodynamics of voluntary turnover, which consulting psychologists and organisational leaders can utilise to address this phenomenon within their work groups.

Search for neurophysiological mechanisms of configurational learning

Configural learning is a form of associative learning in which the conditioned stimulus is a holistic set of stimulus elements rather than individual stimuli or their isolated properties. Successfully solving the task of such associative learning requires a holistic analysis of the entire configuration as a whole. The ability to analyze not only individual physical aspects of a stimulus or single objects in a visual scene, but also their holistic combinations, offers significant evolutionary advantages, as configurations often have substantially greater predictive power compared to individual stimulus elements or features. Moreover, the ability to holistically analyze combinations of stimulus field elements or features can be considered an initial, primitive manifestation of consciousness. In the present review, we consider the history of the development of the concept of configural learning, the main methodological avenues of investigation, and currently available neurophysiological data on the putative neural basis of this phenomenon. We find it most interesting to study the processes of configural learning in humans using modern neuroimaging methods, as they provide a glimpse into the holistic brain functioning. Finally, we consider the future tasks aimed to provide a more complete understanding of the neurophysiology of the configural learning phenomenon.

Philosophical and Psychological Foundations of Social Responsibility and Ethics

The topic of the paper was the philosophical and psychological foundations of social responsibility and ethics, and the subject was the component composition of social responsibility and ethics in the philosophical and psychological context. The purpose of the article was to empirically clarify the philosophical and psychological foundations of social responsibility and ethics. The research methodology included the following steps: the development of a questionnaire containing clarification of the features of social responsibility and ethics in a philosophical and psychological context; formation of a sample of students of higher educational institutions of Ukraine; collection of results using Google forms; mathematical calculation of the obtained results; formation and characteristics of groups of students in accordance with the peculiarities of the perception of social responsibility and ethics as a philosophical and psychological phenomenon. The structure of social responsibility and ethics includes ten components: cognitive; worldview; axiological; behavioural; sensual; communicative; social; cultural; national; historical. It is shown that behavioural features and socio-cultural background are the most important for the formation of social responsibility and ethics, sensory and communicative features, as well as the historical basis, are the least important. For a clearer understanding of the peculiarities of the studied phenomenon, a cluster analysis was carried out. It was revealed that variants of the interpretation of social consciousness and ethics can be divided into four clusters: the form of manifestation of individual behaviour; a form of manifestation of socially determined behaviour; form of manifestation of individual consciousness; a form of manifestation of social consciousness. The results obtained are the first step towards analysing the phenomenon of social responsibility and ethics. The following research ideas are related to a comparative analysis of the understanding of social responsibility and ethics by representatives of different social, age and national groups.

THE POETIC NATURE OF INTERNET-TEXTS AS A NATIONAL CHARACTER TRAIT

The article analyzes texts produced through poetic tactics – one of the linguocultural units that reflects the national specifics of Kazakhstani Internet texts located in the virtual space. The Internet has also made it possible to develop poetic discourse, the authors of which can be any Internet user. Elements of poetic tactics used in the communications of Internet users model manifestations of national consciousness. Today, in the works of native speakers in the virtual space, it is common to find texts in the poetic form of the communicants’ own work or poetic texts that are not their own works, but partially or fully quoted from other sources, for example, from popular songs, poems of great folk poets, akyns. The goal is to consider the established concepts of poetic tactics in modern linguistics and study poetic texts that reflect the national characteristics of the Internet space. In the process of writing a work, methods of description, narration, and elements of linguocultural analysis techniques are used. They reveal the meaning of the poetic nature of communicants common in a certain folk culture, create the opportunity to determine their originality, and differentiate their functions. The choice of such tactics depends on the temperament, mentality, and values of a particular linguistic personality. As a result of linguoculturological and linguopersonological analysis of texts, it is concluded that poetic tactics in Internet texts depict ideas, the spirit of the people based on the national image of the world and form the text generation of the Kazakh virtual linguistic personality. Key words: poetic tactics, Internet text, communication, Internet commentary, picture of the world, virtual space.

The Interplay of Fiqh, Adat, and State Marriage Law: Shaping Legal Consciousness of Sasak Women

Sasak women grapple with a legal conundrum stemming from the coexistence of multiple marriage legal frameworks encompassing fiqh, adat, and state law. This intricate legal pluralism dynamically shapes the legal consciousness of Sasak women as they navigate the selection of legal avenues to secure legality and address their marital legal challenges. This study pursues two primary objectives: firstly, to examine the intricate interplay among fiqh, adat, and state marriage law concerning the provision of legal certainty and protection for Sasak women; secondly, to probe into the manifestations of legal consciousness arising from the plural marriage legal frameworks. Data were collected through document analysis, literature review, and in-depth interviews with selected Sasak women. The findings illuminate a dynamic interplay among fiqh, adat, and state marriage law across various marital facets, including prenuptial considerations, minimum marriage age, marriage prerequisites and pillars, marriage contracts, residency, polygamy, divorce, and reconciliation. Moreover, the study identifies three distinct forms of legal consciousness emerging among Sasak women: ‘before the law’ when confronting fiqh, ‘with the law’ when embracing formal legal mechanisms to address marital issues, and ‘against the law’ when eschewing formal legal provisions. In conclusion, state marriage laws are more progressive in providing legal certainty and protection for women but lacking criminal sanctions/fines weakens their position compared to religious law (fiqh) and customs (adat). Ultimately, this shapes the legal consciousness of Sasak women in diverse ways.

The Spirit of Happiness: The Universal Manifestation of Life

Happiness is the manifestation of positive contemplation and consciousness. It is a way of demonstrating positive thinking and intuition. The spirit of happiness is a collaboration of life contentment, positive effect, and high thinking in the subjective nature. The study delves into the sources of happiness globally, revealing mental health, physical wellbeing, living conditions, behaviors, personal safety, and life expectancy. The feeling of life has the most delighted meaning, leading to the divine inspiration of happiness. The objective of the paper is to state the spirit of happiness, encompassing feelings of contentment, positive vibes, and supportive life. The paper covers the World Happiness Report since 2012 when it was started, its background, factors, reports, and findings. The emancipation of happiness is multifaceted, covering positive emotions and cognitive feelings. Social connection, natural attitude, fiscal support, socio-culture, pragmatic sign, and mental healing are key terms, creating a vibrant evolution of happiness, and leading to the contentment of consciousness and self-awareness. Happiness is not only a personal pursuit but also a societal measure of progress, manifesting emotional intelligence, individualism, idealism, and perfectionism.

THE FINANCIAL ASPECT OF THE WEALTH OF PEOPLE AND NATIONS

Introduction. The article is devoted to important problems: what are the origins of people's wealth and inequality, why do some nations decline and others become richer?
 The purpose of the article.. The purpose of the article: on the basis of a systematic approach to problems and a new interpretation of the basic law of value, the principle of its growth, and the fundamental provisions of the theory of finance, to shed light on the nature of the wealth of mankind.
 Results.The article examines the approaches of scientists from different countries, regarding their answers to today's questions and the substantiation of their conclusions. On the basis of a systemic approach, the nature and causes of the wealth of people and nations were investigated, and the contribution of scientists to the solution of existing problems was analyzed.
 It is substantiated that there were and will be many reasons for wealth, and they are always interconnected. The nature of wealth remains the same - the desire of people to create and circulate value in order to satisfy their needs and the needs of nature. A study was conducted using the law of value and the fundamental provisions of the theory of finance, which showed that trust and responsibility between people, the state and nature were and are the basic principle of wealth.
 It is outlined that trust and responsibility are a manifestation of a person's worldview, when a person not only understands the need to be trustworthy and responsible, but also feels such a need. Trust and responsibility, as a manifestation of human consciousness, is formed by many factors: geographical, climatic, political, national, family, pedagogical, psychological, spiritual, as well as education, availability of natural resources, technological progress, legal and moral norms, and others
 The article analyzes the problems of increasing wealth in Ukraine and highlights the ways of its growth. An attempt was made to make a scientific forecast of the growth of the wealth of mankind in the information age.
 Conclusions It is proven that during the transition to the information age, which has already begun, the worldview of the population of the countries and the world scientific paradigm are changing, which creates for scientists a new foundation for researching the problems of wealth development. However, the nature of wealth remains the same: trust and responsibility between people and man towards nature. Trust-responsible relationships are a manifestation of a person's worldview.

Validation of the Awareness Atlas-a new measure of the manifestation of consciousness.

Consciousness has intrigued philosophers and scholars for millennia and has been the topic of considerable scientific investigation in recent decades. Despite its importance, there is no unifying definition of the term, nor are there widely accepted measures of consciousness. Indeed, it is likely that consciousness-by its very nature-eludes measurement. It is, however, possible to measure how consciousness manifests as a lived experience. Yet here, too, holistic measures are lacking. This investigation describes the development and validation of the Awareness Atlas, a measure of the manifestation of consciousness. The scale was informed by heart-based contemplative practices and the resulting lived experience with a focus on the impacts of manifestation of consciousness on daily life. Four hundred forty-nine individuals from the USA, Canada, India, and Europe participated in psychometric testing of the scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used for validation, demonstrating excellent validity in measuring manifestation of consciousness. The final model fit exceeded all required thresholds, indicating an excellent fitted model with a single dimensionality to measure the manifestation of consciousness comprised of four subscales: Relationship to Others; Listening to the Heart; Connection with Higher Self; and Acceptance and Letting Go. Number of years meditating and practicing Heartfulness meditation were positively related to the total and subscale scores. Test-retest reliability was excellent for the total scale, and good to excellent for the four subscales. Findings demonstrate that the Awareness Atlas is a well-constructed tool that will be useful in examining changes in manifestation of consciousness with various experiences (e.g., meditation, life-altering conditions).

Jak duchowość zmartwychstańców przekształcała środowisko kulturowe. Modlitwa Pańska o. Piotra Semenenki i Feliksa hr. Sobańskiego

The text is an attempt’ to present the influence of the spirituality and ideas preached by the Resurrectionist fathers on the culture and art, including architecture and the cultural environment of the Polish territories in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The postulates concerning the need to change the way society functions (towards a civil society), to work on an increase of parish structures and communities operating within local societies, as well as the thorough education of priests and the renewal of liturgical life, were of particular importance to the congregation. The change in thinking towards ideas close to those of the Resurrectionists became evident, among other things, in a tendency particularly prominent in the erection of so-called village cathedrals, or neo-Gothic churches, which became centers of community revival and raised the status of the neighborhood by providing appropriate space for the renewal of the splendor of the collective liturgy and space for educational and charitable works. Feliks and Emilia Sobański, originally from Obodówka in Ukraine, settled in Guzów in Mazovia since 1865, would consciously embraced the idea of secular involvement in the religious development of Poles, the growth of the presence of Christian principles in politics, economy, philanthropy, education, science and art, and thus – in the long run – the rebirth of Polish statehood. Feliks Sobański particularly profoundly experienced his faith in the context of the Lord’s Prayer words, which accompanied him throughout his life and which he put into action through charitable works – he founded orphanages, shelters, hospitals, as well as places of worship – that were part of the architectural landscape of the Polish lands. His attitude derived from personal contacts with the fathers of the Resurrectionist order and benefited from Father Piotr Semenenko’s lectures on the Our Father prayer. Individual invocations of the Lord’s Prayer appeared on places of worship and charity founded by Sobański, including: the chapel at the Guzów palace, the chapel at the Ophanage in Guzów, above the entrance to the Classrooms for Boys in Warsaw, and on the office building of the Sobański palace in Aleje Ujazdowskie in Warsaw. The constant use of fragments of the Lord’s Prayer in order to mark the buildings he founded was an extremely conscious manifestation of piety, simplicity and charity. Feliks Sobański, by placing the message in public space, would probably have assumed that it could be decoded by many, nevertheless it is difficult to identify specific recipients. The permanent (at least in assumption) inscription on the building is, or rather becomes, a permanent element of the space, assigned to carry the values contained in the inscription and influence others with them. The use of passages from the Lord’s Prayer, a text fundamental to Christianity and widely known (at the time of the message’s transmission), is an interesting use of pars pro toto, when a “part” stimulates thinking about the “whole” and a peculiar public confession of faith by Feliks Sobański, resulting from a deliberate embodiment of the Christian attitude following the teachings of the Resurrectionist fathers. It seems that the concept of marking buildings with invocations from the Lord’s Prayer, applied by Feliks Sobański and Emilia Sobańska, has no counterpart in the Polish territories, as well as it has not yet been possible to point out semantically similar European realizations.

Ценностный профиль осужденных женщин с разным уровнем правового сознания

<p style="text-align: justify;">The article presents the results of the empirical study of the value profile of convicted women demonstrating different levels of legal consciousness. The study was conducted in 2020-2022 on the basis of correctional institutions located in Siberian Federal District. The sample of the study was made up of 1029 convicted women aged 20 to 35 years serving their sentences for the first time. The diagnostic complex included the following techniques: “The Test of Legal and Civil Consciousness” (L.A. Yasyukova), “Differential Scale of Actual Values” (N.A. Samoylik), “The Test of Life Orientations” (D.A. Leontiev). It is empirically proved that the situational value profile of women with legal nihilism is characterized by humanity, optimism, understanding of labor prestige, as well as by a low level of justice and predominance of temporary perspectives presentment in the minds of convicts. The value profile of convicted women with a partial manifestation of legal consciousness is characterized by the semantic fullness of life based on the values of intellectual development, self-development and sociability and is defined as variable. The structure of a stable value profile of convicts with a formed legal consciousness includes responsibility, mannerliness, self-control and conscientiousness. These results can be used in conducting individual counseling and correctional work aimed at forming the value sphere and legal consciousness of women serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty.</p>

Hemispheric functional asymmetries and sex effects in visual bistable perception

This study investigates bistable perception as a function of the presentation side of the ambiguous figures and of participants’ sex, to evaluate left–right hemispheric (LH-RH) asymmetries related to consciousness. In two experiments using the divided visual field paradigm, two Rubin's vase-faces figures were projected simultaneously and continuously 180 s long to the left (LVF) and right (RVF; Experiment 1) or to the upper (UVF) and lower (DVF; Experiment 2) visual hemifields of 48 healthy subjects monitored with eye-tracker. Experiment 1 enables stimulus segregation from the LVF to the RH and from the RVF to the LH, whereas Experiment 2 does not. Results from Experiment 1 show that males perceived the face profiles for more time in the LVF than in the RVF, with an opposite trend for the vase, whereas females show a similar pattern of perception in the two hemifields. A related result confirmed the previously reported possibility to have simultaneously two different percepts (qualia) in the two hemifields elicited by the two identic ambiguous stimuli, which was here observed to occur more frequently in males. Similar effects were not observed in Experiment 2. These findings suggest that the percepts display the processing abilities of the hemisphere currently processing the stimulus eliciting them (e.g., RH-faces), and that females and males reflect in bistable perception, a genuine manifestation of consciousness, the well-known hemispheric asymmetry differences they show in ordinary perception.

PECULIARITIES OF USING THE VERBALISATION COMPONENTS OF THE CONCEPT ALTRUISM IN THE INTEGRATION PROCESSES (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE GERMAN PUBLICISTIC TEXTS)

Nowadays' realities dictate new manifestations of the use of components of the concept verbalization. The publicistic texts serve effectively for the objective reflection, as newspaper articles optimally record all shades of changes in social and, as a result, language processes. Taking into account the characteristics, we understand the concept as a unit of a generalized linguistic and mental resource with ethno-national or culturally determined human ideas about reality. The article analyzes the peculiarities of the verbalization means use of the concept ALTRUISM based on frequency and semantic characteristics in the modern German publicistic texts. The research material was texts of the newspaper "Die Welt" with a total sample of 30,000 word usages, within 518 examples of components, which belong to different parts of speech of the concept verbalization ALTRUISM were identified. The method of contextual analуsis of newspaper texts was used with regard to the integration social mechanisms of modern Germany. The frequency indicators of the verbalization components are interpreted within the studied sample on the basis of comparative analysis. The verbalization means analysis of the concept ALTRUISM on the material of the studied continuous sample proves the dominance of adjectives with the meaning "altruistic". It confirms the characteristics of altruistic motives, actions and goals as a manifestation of collective consciousness in German society. Mechanisms of understanding and designation of ALTRUISM in the conditions of integration processes are related to the corresponding emotional and psychological states of new society members with a migratory experience, which in linguistic expression are revealed by the use of antonyms with the meaning "selfish" to evaluate "altruistic behavior". Veiled manifestations of egoism, contextually marked by means of verbalization of the concept ALTRUISM have become a feature of the linguistic expression of social processes in modern Germany. In the future, we plan to make a comparative analysis of verbalization means of the concepts EGOISM and ALTRUISM on the material of the same sample of publicistic texts using statistical methods to establish the optimal objective characteristics of the interaction of the verbalization components, which belong to the different parts of speech.

Attorney-client privilege as an element of lawyer’ legal consciousness

The aim of the work is a systematic analysis of such an institution as the attorney-client privilege. The article analyzes the legal basis of the attorney-client privilege. In addition, gaps and contradictions in terms of securing the legal status of the attorney-client privilege are identified. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of the attorney-client privilege as an element and manifestation of a lawyer's legal consciousness. Moreover, a significant place is given to the analysis of the limits of the attorney-client privilege.

Beyond Comparative Poetics: An Evaluation of The Nucleo-genre Paradigm

The dominance of Western theories in an age of globalization and swift technological advances, which brought to collective consciousness manifestations of literary and artistic genres in distant geographical places that were once viewed as primitive or exotic, necessitates raising the question of comparative poetics anew. During the second half of the twentieth century, scholars such as James J.Y. Liu, Earl Miner, Stephen Owen, and Wai-lim Yip engaged in comparing Western to Eastern poetics. However, their work fell short of reaching a unifying approach to the study of world poetics. This is the gap that Alaa Abd al-Hadi, a thinker, poet and postcolonial critic, came to fill out. Abd al-Hadi’s Nucleo-genre Paradigm is universally oriented. Based on qualitative logic and Lutfi Zadeh's fuzzy sets, it posits that there are essential elements common to various cultural manifestations of a single genre across time and space. It is these common elements, which help decide whether a certain manifestation belongs to a certain genre, that allow for cross cultural communication and understanding while respecting cultural specificities, manifested by an infinite number of aesthetic elements. Unlike the other approaches to the field of comparative poetics, Nucleo-genre Paradigm distinguishes between two levels of genre, the poetic level of production and the aesthetic level of reception, and gives primacy to reception, which is often disregarded in genre theories. In this paper, an attempt is made to evaluate the contribution of the Nucleo-genre Paradigm beyond comparative poetics.

The capacity of blogosphere in the framework of constructing the image of the future among youth

Introduction. The study of the role of the blogosphere in shaping the values and meanings of young people is a relevant and little-studied aspect of virtual network communications. The blogosphere today has become an integral part of digital culture and mass media. It has penetrated into all spheres of human life and has become a sought-after resource for young people. Today, blog platforms are not only a serious tool for presenting individual and collective self-consciousness, but also a means of re/forming ideas, attitudes, value orientations both at the level of an individual and at the level of public consciousness. The aim of the article is to study the capacity of the blogosphere and its role in the socio-cultural and value-semantic space of young people, which influence the formation of the image of the future (individual, collective). Materials and methods. Russian and international publications in periodical peer-reviewed journals served as materials. Research method: theoretical analysis of modern approaches to the study of the blogosphere in various social sciences. Research results. It is shown that opinion leaders demonstrate negative forms of self-expression and selfpresentation in the network and construct a complex destructive and controversial image of the future. The blogger's audience: 1) actively observes different models of the image of the future; 2) evaluates the presented models; 3) correlates personal images of the future with the images of the opinion leader and other participants; 4) the majority of the audience accepts or demonstrates acceptance of the presented model. The research outcomes indicate that young people who prefer to receive various kinds of information from bloggers (not the media) trust the content of the information more and are more motivated to take specific actions after viewing the content. Discussion and conclusion. An analysis of modern research has shown that the blogosphere has a huge educational potential, but from the point of view of psychology, it remains a complex and little-studied area. The importance of further research is due to: 1) the transformation of mass consciousness, the intensification of crisis manifestations of consciousness against the backdrop of serious changes on a global scale and in all spheres of human life; 2) an increase in destructive content on the Internet and an increase in negative social activity, which is demonstrated by opinion leaders in the digital environment; 3) the need to create tools that contribute to the formation of competencies among young people, allowing them to resist the influence of negative content on the Internet (including opinion leaders) and their introduction into various educational systems. Keywords: blogosphere, opinion leader, youth, image of the future, Internet

Представления о мистике и магии как выражение особенностей христианского мировоззрения священника Павла Флоренского

The article examines one of the most important features of the religious, philosophical and theological heritage of the priest Pavel Florensky. Despite the large amount of research literature, it remains not sufficiently studied. Unlike a number of other thinkers, elements of mysticism and mystical perceptions in Florensky's works are associated with his direct interest in those realities that relate to the theory and practice of magic and occultism. The article gives a brief overview of the opinions expressed by the leading researchers of Florensky's legacy, who dealt with this topic. There is a lack of serious developments on this topic after the publication of all Florensky's texts by the early 2010s. In the article, the research is carried out on three main aspects. The first one analyzes Florensky's concepts, in which his views on mysticism and mystical experience found expression. His beliefs stand out, on the basis of which he considered the mystical experience universal for all periods of human history. In the second aspect, evidence of the mystical experience of Florensky himself is revealed. Remarks are made regarding his distinction between genuine mysticism and false mysticism, respectively, as free and not free from the subjective “human factor”. The third aspect provides the main evidence of Florensky's actual attitude to the realities of “magical” relationships in the world, as well as to the theory and practice of occult teachings. It is noted that Florensky was convinced that these realities themselves are spiritually neutral, but can be used in various ways by those who have known them. The main conclusion is made that Florensky, as a Christian thinker, perceived mysticism as a “knowledge of the higher worlds” primarily in its soteriological aspect. The main danger of false mysticism, as well as the practice of “dark” magic and occultism, he saw only in the unconscious or conscious manifestation of human self-will and human subjectivity.

Современные проблемы сохранения дагестанских языков: экспертное мнение

The article handles the problem of studying regional Dagestan languages against the backdrop of an intensive process of urbanization in the republic. Based on an expert survey, modern events in the language sphere and the measures for the development of the Dagestan languages are identi-fied, which affect legislative initiatives at the federal level and the state of native languages in the government. The author pays special attention to the connection between the ethno-cultural educa-tion of the younger generation and the formation of manifestations of civic consciousness and pat-riotic feelings of an individual personality. Thus, the author attempted to analyze the social aspect of the functioning of regional lan-guages. The main purpose of the study is to identify the real picture of the language needs of Da-gestan people and to prevent possible social conflicts based on dissatisfaction with the ethno-cultural needs of the population. The author focuses on turning national policy into an effective mechanism for strengthening civic identity, maintaining social stability at the federal, regional levels.

THE CONCEPT OF «LANGUAGE AWARENESS» IN THE MODERN LINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY

The article analyzes the historiography and historiosophy of the concept of linguistic consciousness in the projection onto the term system of modern linguistics. The definition of the term is proposed, its integrative connections, generic-species correlations in synchrony and diachrony are clarified. In the historical aspect, the formation of national and social linguistic consciousness and their textual implementation is established. Linguistic, sociocultural, cognitive, communicative factors are taken into account for the comprehensive disclosure of the content of the concept of linguistic consciousness and the differentiation of linguistic concepts related to it. A comprehensive analysis of the concept of language consciousness justifies its status as a psycholinguistic category that covers the results of mental activity, perception and assimilation of information verbalized by means of the national language. Its units are concepts (ethnocentrisms), which are realized in language with the help of an associative-verbal thesaurus: words, phrases, expressions, grammatical and logical categories, grammatical and textual forms, functioning of the intentional-motivational mechanism. In the language, two types of verbal manifestations of linguistic consciousness constantly interact: 1) associated with the formation of a stable mechanism of functional structures of associative-verbal thesauri, the developed core of networks, words, grammatical and logical categories, which is a manifestation of the durability of national memory; 2) connected with dynamic, primarily evaluative, processes in verbal networks, verbal structures, intentional images. Linguistic consciousness in all its varieties (folk, social and ethnocentric, communicative) is a dynamic, culturally and socially conditioned and integral element of the history of the literary language. It changes along with the development of the nation, acquires new forms and manifestations, improves synchronously with the formation of a conscious, intellectual society.

The Expanding of Consciousness, Integral Consciousness, and Conscious Evolution in Paule Marshall’s Fiction

Paule Marshall’s literary concerns cover key issues of the Black Diaspora such as Black consciousness and the search for wholeness. These two issues connect with the research about the different manifestations of consciousness carried out by scientists such as physicist Peter Russell, nurse Margaret Newman, philosopher Ken Wilber and psychologist Paloma Cabadas. In this essay, I contend that Marshall’s characters experience different aspects of consciousness that take them into a process known as the search for wholeness. Paule Marshall’s writings are also part of the Black Consciousness Movement, inquiring into epistemologies that have their roots in “the workable past”, creating emancipatory knowledge for afro-descendants. The methodology employed to read Marshall’s novels follows the conscious evolution paradigm put forward by psychologist Paloma Cabadas, and the integral consciousness model proposed by Ken Wilber. Both models offer valid routes for analyzing Marshall’s characters in the light of Newman’s concept of expanding consciousness.

Linguistic Dimension of Political Advertising: Analysis of Linguistic Means of Manipulative Influence

The manipulative influence of speech is a constant subject of debate. Advertising as a reflection of social reality has manipulative potential. Studies of the linguistic means that form and enable the manipulative slogans of political advertising are studied in terms of sociolinguistics, language dynamics of political discourse, and in most scientific sources are revealed as a new conscious manifestation of the desire to influence the masses. Manipulative discourse is considered in the strategic field of didactics of language and culture. Political advertising is capable of generating a huge stream of individual and collective reflections that touch upon the most basic human features of linguodidactics. Not only is the contrast between “language” (bearing, reassuring, essential) and “manipulative” (obscure, threatening, dangerous) stark, but their juxtaposition is neither more nor less unnatural. The main purpose of political discourse is to promote understanding, communication, and dialogue between cultures and to have a manipulative effect. So, the main question is whether argumentation should be considered in the analysis of the manipulative influence of political advertising discourse. Subsequent directions of consideration of the concept are determined by the possibility of using the proposed model in the study of political speeches on the material of other languages. In further scientific searches, we will focus on other theoretical studios of discourse, focusing on those of that are aimed, among other things, at the analysis of political discourse, in particular, the most significant factors determining its essence, peculiarities of construction, and development in those or other socio-cultural conditions.