As contribuições da língua materna para o processo psicolinguístico de cadeias de associações: uma análise entre casos

Abstract

The research proposes to investigate the influence and, therefore, relevance of mother tongue for the human associative psycholinguistic process; through the analysis of data from an online survey with 3 volunteer informants. The study included the Free Word Association Test (TALP), a projective-type technique that makes it possible to evidence aspects of the subject's representations about an inducing object, which in the research was represented by an audio with a topic focused on the current 2020 pandemic and issues that revolve around this theme. In addition, we sought to analyze the data and associate them with each other, to highlight their similarities and divergences, emphasizing language as an essential tool in the associative process of the informants. During data collection, the words that most appeared as examples of the most intense feelings towards the audio were "anger", "hypocrisy" and "fear", therefore, it was considered that the prevalent association among the candidates of this research, before the world situation of the new coronavirus, first triggers a powerful feeling of threat / insecurity in the subject, a feeling that had, through language, the only possible way of externalization. The work contributes to a more detailed understanding of what people feel about the current pandemic, as well as the functionality of language in externalizing this feeling, based on ideas from authors such as S. Freud and Carl G. Jung, considered major contributors to the development of the research outline.