Autonomic Regulation of Speech Strategies and Tactics in the Communicative Situation of Polylogue

This research is an attempt to analyze speech strategies and tactics in the communicative situation of polilogue taking into consideration functional state of communicants, to be precise their heart rate variability and its connection with speech characteristics. From the one side, the research touches upon a subject of cognitive linguistics, from the other side, is psycholinguistic, exploring physiological side of the speech action. The problem of connection between speech and physiology accounted for the search of analysis methods for such connection. The problem of theoretical material’s interpretation consisted in limited opportunities for usage of dialogue classifications of speech strategies and tactics for polylogue speech, which determined the necessity of contamination of different dialogue speech classifications in this research. The material for the research was acquired from the experiment conducted in the psycholinguistic laboratory of the Lobachevski University, which imitated the situation of spontaneous polylogue on a topic “Crimea is ours!” In this research such methods as semantic, syntax, lexical analysis of the record’s script, auditive analysis of the record by means of the software application Praat, wireless cardiointervalography and spectral analysis based on Fourier transforms were used.