Papish V. Linguistic psychoaccentuation of an elite language personality: theory, history, discursive practice.

The thesis for the first time in Ukrainian linguistics comprehensively and multifacetedly characterizes the linguapsychoaccentuation theory, which has become the development of the study about psychological accentuation, particularly initiated in medicine and then projected into a modern interdisciplinary knowledge paradigm, that made it possible to have formed a new and promising scientific direction in Ukrainian psycholinguistics, an innovative study, and as well to have developed a new research methodology. Focusing much scholarly attention upon the negative impact of accentuations in the past had definitely led to a simplified view of this phenomenon. Therefore, a need had emerged for a new understanding of the accentuation phenomenon as a psychological linguistic consciousness construct which, accordingly, affects the formation of a language personality’s idiostyle, and idiolect, and contains concealed information about it. The paper comprehensively presents the linguapsychoaccentuation theory, outlines the current state of its being explored in an interdisciplinary paradigm with a focus on linguistic issues, traces the stages of its formation and development in terms of the psycholinguistic ideas presented by Ukrainian linguists, characterizes the foreign linguists’ methodology impact on its formation.