N. I. Zhinkin’s approach and speech self-identification of people in different age periods

Abstract

The paper shows the mechanism of transformation of personality self-identification under the influence of social changes and personality ontogenesis. Based on N.I. Zhinkin’s approach to the study of speech generation, the significance of the code and stages of the formation of internal speech from the origin of thought, its implementation, as well as self-identification in speech is shown. The purpose of the work is based on the theory of speech codes and self-identification of N.I. Zhinkin, as well as an approach to the study of self-disclosure of abilities through self-description texts, analyze the features of the linguistic content of self-descriptions (Self-concepts) in two groups, one of which is teenagers, the other is adults. To show the differences in the characteristics of the content of self-identification. Theoretical approaches were used to study the generation of speech, the connection of thinking, language and speech self-identification of a person with speech codes; an expert method for analyzing texts of self-descriptions with the allocation of identified categories of abilities; frequency analysis using the MAXQDA program, R. Fischer’s criterion. Specific qualitative and quantitative characteristics of comparing texts of self-descriptions as speech self-identification of persons with different life experiences have been obtained. The number of persons with fixed self-disclosure of abilities in groups of adolescents and adults has been determined. With the help of identification codes, the peculiarities of speech self-identification of a person in different age periods were discovered. The number of people with recorded selfdisclosure of abilities in adults and adolescents does not significantly differ. The most common categories of self-identification in adolescents are age, appearance, name, future, and fears. In the group of adults, epithets, social statuses, and family roles turned out to be the predominant categories.