Psycholinguistic Analysis of Internal Monologue of the Drama Work Hero (based on Bertolt Brecht drama “Life of Galileo”)

Abstract

The article carries out psycholinguistic analysis of internal monologue in a drama work by which a full and deep understanding of the inner state of the hero is achieved, which is the main point for the following linguistic, and stylistic analysis. On the basis on the results of the analysis, one can also identify what circumstances and actions can really change the psychological state of the hero, and where his response was "conditionally emotional": which means that his words convey some emotions, status and motive of action, but emotionally the character is set to something quite different.

Keywords

• psycholinguistic analysis
• drama
• inner monologue
• Bertolt Brecht