Osipova T. Nonverbal Communication and the Originality of its Verbalization in the Ukrainian Discourse: the Phenomenon of Verbalization of Nonverbal

The thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon and process of verbalization of nonverbal. The history of the national theory formation of nonverbal communication (NC) has been described for the first time. In the study there have been clarified the parameters of its research, methodological principles and terminological field. Discursive analysis of oral and written speech helped to distinguish the originality of verbalization of NC at all levels of the language system, and according to the logic of philosophical knowledge that motivates the formation of an independent syncretic section of communicative linguistics – verbalization of nonverbal, or verbalization of NC, which was created on the lines of intersection of sections of verbal and nonverbal communication. The work shows the influence of extra-linguistic factors on the originality of the verbalization of NC; demonstrates the peculiarities of nonverbal verbalization in the different types of discourses of the Ukrainian linguo-culture (folklore, art, epistolary and journalistic) and reveals the mechanisms of ornamentalics modelling on the basis of NC parameters verbalization ("ornamental nonverbalism"). The phenomenon of verbalization of NC is projected into the area of linguo-personology. New methods of nonverbal competence of a linguistic personality research for its complex portrayal and definition of psycho-type, as well as for studying the Ukrainian language in its functional communicative aspect have been developed and introduced into the practice of its teaching as a native and foreign language