VIOLENCE IN CREOLIZED TEXT: ANALYSIS OF COMPREHENSION PATTERNS
The article studies the peculiarities of comprehension of creolized texts containing information about violence. The urgency of this research is determined by the lack of theoretical interpretation of creolized text comprehension by the reader, especially those texts that promote the ideas of violence. At the same time, forensic analysis necessitates assessment of the influence of such texts on the audience. The theoretical part of the article summarizes the modern approaches to creolized texts: its analysis, its structure identification and comprehension patterns determination. The analysis of the scientific papers reveals the absence of unanimous interpretation of graphic and verbal components of creolized texts. There are theories that the meaning of the text depends on: a) the order of creolized text components, b) the nature of semantic links between the components, c) the emphasis on certain components of the text in comprehension. These theories were experimentally tested. Three types of creolized texts with verbal and graphic symbols of violence were analyzed during the experiment. The texts differ in their semantic links between their graphic and verbal parts: it was either direct, or interconnected, or indirect. The experiment involved 122 participants. Their views on the texts were recorded, analyzed with the help of content analysis first and then with the mathematical and statistical analysis of variance. The hypothesis of the influence of semantic links between the graphic and verbal components of creolized texts was only partially confirmed in the experiment, while the hypothesis of the influence the text components on text interpretation was fully confirmed. It was found that the type of semantic link (direct, interconnected or indirect) has no statistically relevant importance in the meaning of the text comprehension. At the same time, it predicts somehow the reference of the readers to certain components of the creolized text. The choice of components has statistical relevance for the meaning of the text comprehension. For instance, the synthesis of graphic and verbal parts contributes to the understanding of the idea of violence, while the graphic or verbal parts taken separately, do not influence it. In general, the research results add new information to views on the influence of graphic and verbal parts of creolized texts on comprehension of the idea of violence present in the text.