The strategies of text perception used by the text recipients while assessing the plot tension and the peculiarities of the plot time motion in detective novels by A. Christie: psycholinguistic aspect

Peshkova Natalia Petrovna, Andrianova Yulia Gennadievna

The given article describes a psycholinguistic experiment aimed to study the strategies of text perception, used by the recipients while assessing the level of such text characteristics as plot tension and the peculiarities of plot time motion. The theoretical basis of the experiment as well as the methods of its’ procedure and interpretation are also given here. As a result of the experiment quantitative and dynamic values of the intensity of emotional and intellectual reactions of the text recipients have been got. The analysis of these values made it possible to reveal the mental strategies activated in the reader’s consciousness when percepting a fiction text. As a result of the experiment it was also possible to see the reactions of plot time motion assessment and reactions revealing the correlations between the use of tense forms in the text and plot time perception.

Keywords:plot tension, plot time motion, plot structure, reference points, microcontext, introspection method, the quantitative analysis.