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. 2023 Sep;57(3):1084-1096.
doi: 10.1007/s12124-022-09738-9. Epub 2023 Feb 22.

Semiotic Approach to the New Perspectives on Inner Speech

Aleksandr Fadeev  1
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Semiotic Approach to the New Perspectives on Inner Speech

Aleksandr Fadeev. Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 2023 Sep.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Digital culture; Inner speech; Language; Otherness; Semiotics; Sign systems.

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