Verbal Creativity Research Articles

«Авторские силы учеников»: М. Горький и начинающие писатели поселка Норское (Ярославская область)

Numerous letters of the writer’s correspondents are stored in the Archive of A. M. Gorky IWL RAS. They shared with the writer their impressions of what they had read, asked for help in literary endeavors, asked for advice, and sent their essays for review. Among M. Gorky’s correspondence there is a letter from a member of the editorial board of the school literary magazine, teacher and local historian Sergei Petrovich Suryaninov (Krasnoperevalskaya Factory school, Norskoye settlement, Yaroslavl region). Suryaninov attached two continuations of Gorky’s story “Mother” to the letter. “Pavel after the Tsar’s Trial” – works by 7th grade students Vladimir Tikhomirov and Mikhail Vereykin. Two essays are interesting for the students’ comprehension of what they have read, the desire to learn more about Gorky’s work, and the desire to change the fate of the characters. Students’ texts are artistically imperfect. The continuations of the original work demonstrate the students’ study of the plot of the story. Young authors borrow images of heroes and elements of the original text; events significant for plot-building unfold within a given chronotope, but students prolong the time thread and thereby weaken deep intertextual connections with the original. Creative works are examples of the activation of the children’s literary movement in the 1930s, the awakening of writing talents among active readers, as well as examples of “continuation texts” as a kind of secondary text. The article analyzes the work of methodologist M. A. Rybnikova, who was engaged in the development of children’s verbal creativity in the 1920s and 1930s. Her activity was in line with the Gorky strategy of educating writers. The responses of young readers to Gorky’s work “Mother” are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. Critical and emotional reviews were important for all participants in the literary process. They allowed the author to get a reaction to the work and feel his relevance. Reviews helped the reader to evaluate what they read and establish feedback with the author, they formed a readership. The appendix of the article contains a letter from S. P. Suryaninov and the writings of V. Tikhomirov and M. Vereykin as an illustration of the methodical and artistic work of the literary circle.

“INSIGHTS INTO DICKENS’S “MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT” AND ITS TRANSLATIONS” (with reference to Armenian and Russian Translations)/ ՉԱՐԼԶ ԴԻՔԵՆՍԻ «ՄԱՐՏԻՆ ՉԵԶԼՎԻԹ» ՎԵՊԸ ԵՒ ԴՐԱ ԹԱՐԳՄԱՆՈՒԹՅՈՒՆՆԵՐԸ (ռուսերեն և հայերեն թարգմանություն)/ РОМАН ДИККЕНСА «МАРТИН ЧАЗЛВИТ» И ЕГО ПЕРЕВОДЫ (русский и армянский перевод)

The research outlines the theoretical and practical framework of the translation of Bildungsroman - a special type of novel of “education” or “formation”. Based on the theorists’ assumptions that Dickens’s verbal creativity illustrated Bildungsroman, the article focused on the art of translation through the prism of a comparative research of Dickens’s “Martin Chuzzlewit” and its Russian and Armenian translations. The "educational" and "didactic" elements of the novel were widely represented in the work, which were transformed and interpreted in other socio-cultural realities through translations.

Два крыла художественного письма

The article examines the correlation between aesthetic and rhetorical aspects of artistic writing in a historical perspective. Before the “aesthetic revolution” of the 18th century, which was marked with the publication of Baumgarten’s Aestheticism, written language, while possessing an essentially creative potential, was conceived purely rhetorically, not as the creation of conditional holistic worlds, but as a textforming craft of a special kind. The discovery of the creative nature of art served as a powerful impulse for its development and shaped classical European artistry. A mental crisis of artistic culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in an imbalance between the aesthetic and rhetorical vectors of artistic writing. Avant-garde provocation, political engagement, and consumer fiction depreciated the aesthetic component of art from various angles. The critical discord between de-aestheticization of artistic writing and the rehabilitation of its aesthetic value was embedded in the formation of a theory of literature as a science, which took place in the polemic between “aesthetics of verbal creativity” by M.M. Bakhtin and purely rhetorical poetics of the formal school. This confrontation, which gave rise, in particular, to the phenomenon of “postmodernism,” continues to this day. It is in this confrontation that the fate of literature as an art of the word is decided.

Модель развития креативности по результатам психологических тренингов

Based on the theory of Markov processes used to describe the learning processes of cognitive systems, a probabilistic model is developed that describes the nature of developing individuals’ creative abilities based on the psychological training results. The stages of developing the theory of creativity are considered, from the standpoint of displaying each person’s creative abilities and intellectual characteristics. The indicators used to evaluate the level of creativity, as well as the reasons and factors that constrain the demonstration of its creative abilities within the framework of the personality’s internal filters are analysed. Reasonable conclusions are made about the creativity phenomenon, as one of a person’s individual abilities, given to her or him by nature, along with an ear for music, predispositions to certain sports, painting, etc. The possibility of further development of a person’s creativity based on the psychological training results is proved. The stages of developing the analytical part of the model using the mathematical apparatus of a simple homogeneous Markov chain are given. The main expressions are obtained that characterize the probabilistic nature of the process of developing creativity in the course of trainings. Graphic material is demonstrated, revealing the essence of the prepared model. The experiment results on developing students’ creative abilities during a-four-session training, obtained on the basis of express testing according to D. Johnson psychodiagnostics method of verbal creativity in E.E. Tunik modification are presented. Directions for further research are determined.

К вопросу об авторе и герое в философской антропологии М.М. Бахтина раннего периода

This article is an ontological and existential interpretation of Mikhail Bakhtin’s early works (Art and Answerability; Toward a Philosophy of the Act; Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity), containing a deep philosophical-anthropological and innovative, in historical and philosophical terms, dialectic of author and hero. The study suggests that during his years in Nevel and Vitebsk Bakhtin strove for an ontological and ethical deepening of the aesthetics of verbal creativity, asserting (in the ontological plane) the being of the hero and, accordingly, the ontological status of the author and the literary work. Unlike with being (an objectively outside position), it is possible to argue with the “author” (a subjectively involved position); the existing (genuine) author is present in the literary work in the form of events that are transgredient (out-of-reach) to the hero’s consciousness. While a hero’s life unfolds as a sequence of actions, the real author is hidden in the hero’s fate (in fact, his own fate) and must be responsible for him. In order to embrace his life in a holistic event, an individual needs to “disappear” as a psychological subject in the practical procedure of ontological conversion of consciousness and relate himself to the moments of his life that are transgredient to his personality. The sum of such moments can be called human destiny. In order to be a full-ledged, real author for the hero, the “subject” must become an author for himself (regardless of whether he is going to become an artist or not). As a result, an objective ontological and existential situation arises, in which the hero and the author undergo an ontological and aesthetic conversion (neutralization of bad subjectivity).

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOGA NIDRA AND CREATIVITY PARAMETERS

The ability of people to think creatively is the main means of technical and cultural progress, in connection with which the urgency of finding ways to increase non-trivial thinking arises. Mindfulness practices, and in particular yoga nidra, can be seen as one of the ways to increase the level of creativity. The purpose of this article is to identify the relationship between yoga nidra and the indicator of creativity. The theoretical basis of the study is a review of the literature on the effects of mindfulness practices and yoga nidra. For the empirical study, the following methods were used: the Torrens non-verbal creativity test, the Mednick verbal creativity test, the SAN questionnaire (well-being, activity, mood), the "Word-color interference" method by G. Stroop, Raven's Progressive Matrices, the Big 5 Five-Factor Personality Questionnaire. This study involved 22 people aged 27-53 from Almaty, Moscow and Nur-Sultan. Creativity was measured, and then the participants were introduced to the yoga nidra practice program. The program was presented to participants for 60 minutes three times a week for three weeks. The yoga nidra process was taught by a yoga expert. Participants were divided into two groups: online and offline. Both groups passed pre- and post-tests. The results showed the positive impact of yoga nidra on the creativity of the participants as a result of this three-week program. No differences were found between online and offline practitioners. Key words: yoga nidra, meditation, awareness, creativity, creative thinking.

Heredity and Creativity: Mother-Child Sample

The aim of this study is to examine the creativity relationship between children aged 8-10 and their mothers. With this relationship between mother and child, it is aimed to provide information to the literature on creativity and transfer.290 children, 155 girls and 145 boys, and their mothers participated in the study. Torrence Creativity Test Verbal and Formal Form was used to measure the creativity of children and mothers. Tests were administered to children and mothers separately. Data were evaluated by correlation and regression analysis. As a result of the evaluations, a significant correlation was found with the creativity total scores of the mothers and the creativity total score of the children, the abstractness of the titles and the originality sub-dimensions. It was determined that maternal creativity total score predicted child creativity total score, abstractness of child titles and child originality sub-dimensions positively and significantly. A significant correlation was found between mothers' figurative creativity, abstractness of titles sub-dimension scores and children's figural creativity originality sub-dimension scores. A positive and significant correlation was determined between the mothers' figural fluency sub-dimension scores and the abstractness of children's titles, child fluency, child originality and child figural creativity total scores. It was observed that the formal fluency sub-dimension scores of the mothers positively predicted the total scores of the children's formal creativity. No significant correlation was found between the verbal creativity total score and sub-dimension scores of the mothers and the verbal creativity total and sub-dimension scores of the children.

Different Facets of Creativity in Employees Covering Non-Clinical to Clinical Manifestations of Burnout.

Empirical studies exploring the relationship between burnout and creativity are very rare. In the present study, a well-defined group of clinical burnout patients (n = 75) and two groups of working people showing high (n = 39) vs. low burnout symptoms (n = 62) were investigated. Participants completed various creativity tests including self-assessed facets of creativity, as well as psychometric measures of figural and verbal creativity. Furthermore, we examined individual and clinical characteristics that may influence creativity in burnout patients, such as depression, sleep quality, daytime fatigue, and cognitive measures (i.e., selective attention and executive control). The clinical burnout group scored lowest in all creativity tasks and cognitive tests. Additionally, they showed lower nighttime sleep quality and higher depression scores. However, creativity scores in both groups of working people were largely comparable, indicating that only more severe (i.e., clinical) manifestations of burnout are linked to creativity.

Constructionist approaches to creativity

AbstractHumans are an incredibly creative species – our minds have evolved to a degree that has enabled us to think original thoughts and come up with novel solutions to a great number of problems. One domain of human cognition that has recently received considerable attention is linguistic creativity. The present contribution will take a closer look at how Construction Grammar can account for various types of verbal creativity. In addition to this, it will also explore the implications of creative utterances for Construction Grammar as a mental theory of language.

Билингвизм Московской Руси и его отражение в литературных памятниках XVI века

The article examines the problem of bilingualism in literary monuments of the XVI century. A brief digression into the history of the study of this issue in the Russian linguistic tradition is given. The conservatism existing in scientific practice in the consideration of semiotic processes, which are often reduced only to the opposition “Church Slavonic — Old Russian”, is emphasized. The richness of stylistic forms and speech formulas in the language practice of the XVI century is noted. The polemical works of this period are analyzed in order to identify and prove the unevenness of bilingualism and its dependence on socio-cultural conditions, the linguistic personality of the author, the genre of the literary monument and axiological characteristics that are indirectly included in the text. Historical-linguistic, contextual-semantic, comparative and stylistic methods are used in the course of studying the language material. They allow us to explore the monuments of different cultural traditions in line with the multifunctionality and polysemanticism of the so-called hybrid literature of the XVI century. The most characteristic features of the monuments are documented: contamination of colloquial and everyday elements, command speech and Church Slavonicisms; the use of biblical intertexts; reflection of high and low in the semantics of verbal turns; emotive fullness of language as a new rhetorical technique in the communicative space of the Old Russian text. The conclusion is made about the ambiguity of language processes in the heyday of bilingualism in Moscovite Rus’ of the XVI century, about the change and complication of bilingualism due to the growth of intercultural ties in literature, the transformation of the book tradition and the emergence of new speech habits in verbal creativity.

LINGUOPOETICS OF EPITHET IN O. HENRY’S SHORT STORIES

It is common knowledge that reading literature in the proper sense of the word is rather difficult as it presupposes the ability of the reader not to confine one’s perception to what can be seen on the surface of the text only. The reader’s ability to go deep into the text and reveal the intention of the writer is of prime importance. Many prominent philologists both in our country and abroad have referred to this question, and their investigations have established that the real understanding of a piece of verbal creativity is a step by step process and can be achieved only gradually. This, in fact, is the underlying methodological bases of the present research which aims at studying the use of epithets in O’Henry’s short stories and their role in the linguopoetic organization of the stories. Of particular investigative interest have turned out to be The Last Leaf and The Gift of Magi.

Creativity in verbal associations is linked to semantic control.

Although memory is known to play a key role in creativity, previous studies have not isolated the critical component processes and networks. We asked participants to generate links between words that ranged from strongly related to completely unrelated in long-term memory, delineating the neurocognitive processes that underpin more unusual versus stereotypical patterns of retrieval. More creative responses to strongly associated word-pairs were associated with greater engagement of episodic memory: in highly familiar situations, semantic, and episodic stores converge on the same information enabling participants to form a personal link between items. This pattern of retrieval was associated with greater engagement of core default mode network (DMN). In contrast, more creative responses to weakly associated word-pairs were associated with the controlled retrieval of less dominant semantic information and greater recruitment of the semantic control network, which overlaps with the dorsomedial subsystem of DMN. Although both controlled semantic and episodic patterns of retrieval are associated with activation within DMN, these processes show little overlap in activation. These findings demonstrate that controlled aspects of semantic cognition play an important role in verbal creativity.

СТИЛІСТИЧНІ ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ ПЕРЕКЛАДУ АНГЛОМОВНИХ ДЖЕРЕЛ В СУЧАСНІЙ ІНТЕРПРЕТАЦІЇ МАЙБУТНІХ ФІЛОЛОГІВ

The article describes the general regularities of artistic text translation, which contain communicative-production and cognitive-interpretive components. The purpose of the article is to justify the stylistic perspectives of the translation of English-language sources in the modern interpretation of future philologists. The research material was authentic English and Ukrainian texts of works of art. The following research methods were used: general scientific hypothetico-deductive method; comparative analysis; analysis and synthesis; free associative experiment; Pearson's correlation analysis (correlation analysis of data) and others. The psycholinguistic analysis of these trends shows that individual translations systematically have deformation patterns that are a consequence of cognitive asymmetry in translations at the stylistic, morphological, and syntactic levels. According to the results of the research, there is confirmation of the relationship between the cognitive style of the translator's personality, respectively, and his degree of verbal creativity, which determines the stylistic representation of the translation of English-language sources in the modern interpretation by future philologists. The target versions of students of lower courses during translation are characterized by cognitive simplification, which leads to the distortion of the cognitive structure of the original source and prevents the alignment of the text according to the original, while the personal transformations of the individual style justify the narrative style of presenting information. On the other hand, the reverse tendency of the prerogative of cognitive complexity prevails among those who have acquired higher education, as a result of the increase in the equivalent of knowledge. Further perspectives on the topic of the research consist in clarifying the interrelationships of the laws of artistic text translation on the materials of other involved speech pairs and text genres.

Эстетическое и этическое значение художественного произведения в образовательной среде

The article is devoted to the study of the role of fiction in the field of education and upbringing. The most important functions of literature that are essential for education (more broadly – the educational environment) are indicated. The works of Chuvash writers, which are included in textbooks-readers on native (Chuvash) literature of basic general and secondary general education, are selectively analyzed. In this article, fiction is considered not so much as a subject of study of literary criticism and criticism, but rather as a socio-cultural phenomenon that has the ability to directly influence the emotional and sensory perception of a person. Fundamental to this scientific research is the descriptive method, which includes techniques of interpretation, comparison, generalization. As a result of the conducted research, it was summed up that verbal creativity always reflects the worldview and feelings of the writer and his people. The following article concludes about a work of art, its representation through the prism of a certain aesthetic microcosm, with its own rules and laws. That is why the work of literature is considered fiction and fantasy of the writer. But on the other hand, in his works the author recreates a certain life situation.

The effectiveness of music therapy in increasing verbal creativity: systematic literature review

Music therapy can be used to increase a person's verbal creativity. This study aims to describe music therapy increases verbal creativity. There are four research questions, namely: 1) Who is the subject who uses music therapy to increase verbal creativity, 2) What kind of music is used to increase verbal creativity, 3) How does music therapy play a role in increasing verbal creativity, 4) How does the success rate of music therapy increase verbal creativity. There were 11 kinds of literature reviewed in this study. Recommendations for further SLR research can be discussed regarding the views of counselors/therapists regarding music therapy for verbal creativity, improving the skills of music therapists using certain approaches, and developing music therapy for verbal creativity.

Features of Using Flash Cards as a Means for Developing Students' Verbal Creativity

Features of Using Flash Cards as a Means for Developing Students' Verbal Creativity

Hyperzographia in Neglect Exposing a Spatial Dissociation between Painting and Writing—A Case Study

The paper depicts and describes the observation of a remarkable post-stroke production of paintings made by a 54-year-old, right-handed man who suffered an acute right hemispheric stroke. The patient’s post-stroke productivity and the spatial distribution of text and drawings were assessed by means of structural analysis of the paintings, as well as neuropsychological and creativity testing. Compared to the age-matched healthy control group, the patient did not only produce more valid answers in the verbal creativity task, but he also drew more images in the figural creativity task. Most strikingly, the painted images were located on the right side in 70% of the paintings, while the text was aligned to the left side in 42% of the paintings. This dissociation between writing and painting behavior was further mirrored in the patient’s neuropsychological performance in a reading test and in a design fluency task. This observation of an increased post-stroke production of paintings may coin a new term, i.e., “hyperzographia”, in analogy to hypergraphia. Additionally, the puzzling dissociation of the writing and painting behavior highlights an important new clinical aspect concerning a differential influence of hemispatial neglect on writing and painting.

Orientation Toward Intrinsic Motivation Mediates the Relationship Between Metacognition and Creativity

ABSTRACTMetacognition and motivation are considered key facets of self‐regulation in various contexts. Recent studies identified a link between metacognition and creative performance, with metacognitively aware students performing more creatively and exhibiting higher levels of intrinsic and identified extrinsic motivation. The present study aims to examine the relationship between metacognition, orientation toward intrinsic or extrinsic motivation, and creative performance. One hundred nineteen university students completed the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) and Scale of Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Orientation in the Classroom and performed four verbal creativity tasks (product improvement task, consequences task, and two unusual uses tasks). The partial correlation network showed that all the creativity tasks were uniquely related to at least one facet of metacognition, and that the most complex task (product improvement task) was linked to both metacognitive knowledge and regulation. Furthermore, the structural equation model indicated that orientation toward intrinsic motivation mediated the relationship between metacognition and creative performance, explaining 16% of the variance in creative performance.

Semantic Spaces Are Not Created Equal – How Should We Weigh Them in the Sequel?

Abstract: Semantic distance scoring provides an attractive alternative to other scoring approaches for responses in creative thinking tasks. In addition, evidence in support of semantic distance scoring has increased over the last few years. In one recent approach, it has been proposed to combine multiple semantic spaces to better balance the idiosyncratic influences of each space. Thereby, final semantic distance scores for each response are represented by a composite or factor score. However, semantic spaces are not necessarily equally weighted in mean scores, and the usage of factor scores requires high levels of factor determinacy (i.e., the correlation between estimates and true factor scores). Hence, in this work, we examined the weighting underlying mean scores, mean scores of standardized variables, factor loadings, weights that maximize reliability, and equally effective weights on common verbal creative thinking tasks. Both empirical and simulated factor determinacy, as well as Gilmer-Feldt’s composite reliability, were mostly good to excellent (i.e., > .80) across two task types (Alternate Uses and Creative Word Association), eight samples of data, and all weighting approaches. Person-level validity findings were further highly comparable across weighting approaches. Observed nuances and challenges of different weightings and the question of using composites vs. factor scores are thoroughly provided.

Images of Nature in Tuvan, Tatar, Russian, and Spanish Riddles

The article offers evidence of contrastive ethnolinguoculturological analysis of images of major natural phenomena (the sun, the moon, the day, the night, the stars, the wind, the rain, the snow/ice) in the riddles of four folk cultures that belong to Turkic (Tuvan and Tatar), Slavic (Russian), and Romance (Spanish) linguocultures, with interpretation of peculiarities of the poetics. Nature binds together different levels of cognition, evokes imaginative associations, refers to the archetypal constants of mythopoetic creativity. Riddles about nature are presented in the verbal creativity of any ethnic group. Theoretically and practically, it is important to develop a unified ethnolinguoculturological approach to study the poetics of thematically identical riddles of multilingual cultures. The subject of the article is riddles about nature, the object is linguistic means that create images of the sun, the moon, the day, the night, the stars, the wind, the rain, the snow/ice in Tuvan, Tatar, Russian-speaking, and Spanish ethnic groups. In the study, around 400 Tuvan, Tatar, Russian and Spanish riddles about nature from books on Tuvan, Tatar, Russian and Spanish folklore were used, along with riddles found on the Internet. The study methods include semantic, interpretative, linguoculturological analysis, culturological commentary, and comparative analysis. The main objective of the article is to analyze models of figurative representation and poetics of nine natural phenomena in four linguocultures. The article establishes that the ethnolinguistic content and poetics of riddles about nature vary depending on objective natural and geographical factors, dominant folk worldview, and typological affiliation of languages. The most numerous and metaphorically branched in all four linguistic cultures were the riddles about the sun, the wind, and the moon . The investigated riddles about nature show the characteristic determinant of the Turkic and the sporadic determinant of the Russian and Spanish riddles. The similarity of the images suggests a Eurasian continuum of riddles about nature.