Self-presentation of the Elderly in the Mode of Socio-Communicative and Semantic Characteristics of a Certain Age Group
The paper features the analysis of the reflection of older people on themselves, their age, social status, based on a psycholinguistic study of relevant fragments of linguistic consciousness related to the interpretation of the elderly by the elderly themselves, oral discourse obtained as a result of recorded conversations and spontaneous speech of people of this age. Recordings of spontaneous speech showed, within the framework of self-presentation of the informants between 63 and 75, a contradiction between poor physical condition and the desire for self-fulfillment; implicit expression of the identity of a person who knows life and is able to teach the young; in the group between 75 and 94 - loss of health, reduced quality of life, dependence on relatives; domination in both groups of direct communication, telephone communication, watching TV programs, perception of media people as authoritative interlocutors. The experimental part of the study showed partial overlap with the results of oral conversations. Logical rational experience of the stimulus prevails, there is lack of variable reactions, a limited set of cognitive areas and actual meanings. They are connected with the interpretation of the essence of a person (male, female) of a given age, social status, ambivalent emotional and physical condition, activity, and partly - vital interests. The areas of political problems, the values of people in the immediate circle, communication in free association were not actualized.