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The article aims at identifying the new perspectives on the study of inaudible internal communication, known as inner speech. This is done by addressing the role of semiotic approach in the contemporary studies of inner speech, emphasising the role of contemporary culture in the formation of human inner communication processes, as well as by critically addressing the recent publications that outline the new directions in inner speech research, more specifically “New Perspectives on Inner Speech” edited by Pablo Fossa (2022). The article develops and expands the framework of the new perspectives on inner speech by focusing on such aspects of inner speech research as the language of inner speech, the role of contemporary digital culture in the formation of inner speech and the advances in the recent research methodologies. The discussions established in the article are based on the recent inner speech studies, as well as the author’s own diverse experience in researching inner speech within his PhD research (Fadeev, 2022) and his experience at the inner speech research group at the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu.
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Vygotsky uses the term “egocentric speech”.
Sense [смысл] as “the sum of all the psychological events aroused in our consciousness by the word” (Vygotsky, 2012: 259) is thus opposed to the meaning [значение] of a word described as a socially conventional “dictionary” meaning.
“(a) a concern related with the worries about the possible consequences the accident could generate to the sportswomen/sportsmen, and (b) a concern focused on the unpleasant experience that participants have themselves” (Vergara et al., 2022: 132).
“For instance, it is not unreasonable to expect that people describing their experience of innerly speaking as located in their chest also have, as part of their overall experience, a salient sensation located in the same place” (Vergara et al., 2022: 134).
Zhinkin is referring to natural language.
In his works Vygotsky uses the notion “egocentric speech”.
“identity is a liminal process in continuous transformation in the relationship with otherness” (Picione & Freda, 2022: 62).
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Fadeev, A. Semiotic Approach to the New Perspectives on Inner Speech. Integr. psych. behav. 57, 1084–1096 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09738-9
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