This paper outlines the study of the USA newspaper discourse from psycholinguistic perspectives. The research aims to thoroughly investigate the profound priorities, inconspicuous intentions of leading American mass media. The frame analysis has been used in our research. It is based on the cognitive theories of the representation of the speaker’s knowledge, which retain verbal representation in speech, that is, frames. The main task of this analysis is to determine the leading categories, expressed by frame structures, which include slots containing the main ideas that the author wants to present to his audience. The research went through some stages which aimed at working on the most essential categories in the three articles and filling all the categories with the appropriate slots. The study revealed that most of the articles had three substantial categories which made it possible to fully analyze the authors’ intentions. The slot surveillance that makes the category vigilance very prominent is the paramount idea found in all the articles under discussion. It is realized via facial recognition technology and artificial intelligence. Among other vital categories are technological advances, protection, confidentiality, social interaction, credit system, personal data. All these categories have one thing in common as they are used as means for China people surveillance.

No abstract

Analytic causative constructions are said to function like extension for simple speech utterances rather than contractions of more complex basic structures. The most beneficial advantage of such approach is that it allows focusing on semantics of causative structures concerning the appropriate context. The article outlines certain theoretical principles that clearly explain the use of causative structures in the English language. Different types of carrying various lexical and grammatical meanings are brought to attention, namely word-forming, lexical and contextual ones. Examples are given in the original language and an adequate translation into Ukrainian is made for a better understanding of the causative structures functioning in speech. It was verified that causative constructions with linking verbs can fall in certain types. The results of a comparative analysis of causative constructions with linking verbs in English and Ukrainian indicate the absence of an unambiguous interpretation of the causative situation itself, since its interpretation is influenced by various internal factors. After analyzing the specificity of structures with causative meaning of English and Ukrainian texts, it was found out that among the linguistic mechanisms ensuring the process of structuring cause-and-effect relationships in them, an important role belongs to causative constructions, which represent the relevant cognitive representations of the one who perceives them.

Political language has always been an important socio-cultural phenomenon. The article focuses on some psycholinguistic aspects of a political leader speech. Attention is paid to the psycholinguistic methodology of studying aspects of political leader speech peculiarities. The analysis is based on Hillary Clinton’s concession speech. The purposes of the article are to analyze the speech of the American political leader from the point of view of psycholinguistics and characterize the psychological state of the political individual during her speech. It has been established that the speech is characterized by long and complex sentences, which indicates a slight emotionality of the speaker. The vocabulary diversity coefficient is high enough and indicates the richness, diversity and eloquence of the language policy. The verb correlation coefficient indicates a low aggressiveness of the speech, in which gratitude to voters for support and expressing a desire to cooperate with the elected presidential candidate for the sake of the bright future of a common homeland. The logical coherence coefficient indicates a logically structured speech, which is characterized by logic and connectivity. The rate of embolism is extremely low, which indicates the high level of the politician’s speech and the corresponding social status of the speaker. The speech is structured, meaningful, logically connected with the use of appropriate methods of influencing the audience.

No abstract