Philosophers and psychologists have begun to look more closely in the past fifteen years To investigate Inner speech. It is the voice we hear in our minds when we think or read. Empirical research has found that not everyone has this inner voice, although most of us do Preservation.
Inner speech is called “the little voice in the head” or “thinking in words.” Philosophers also examine it in part because it affects language, consciousness, thinking, communication, imagination, and self-knowledge. All of these things are connected to the little secret voice in our heads.
But this special form of communication also keeps neuroscience, speech therapy, developmental psychology, psychiatry, computer technology, and linguistics in a state of fever. For this reason there are many different tools and concepts to describe it, but with different goals, methods and literature.
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When can we get our inner voice on it? For example, when reading, when the gaze is accompanied by small movements of the larynx, this proves that there is a relationship between inner and outer speech.
Behavioral researcher Gilbert Ryle 1949, Concept of mind He wrote in his book that we can listen not only to others, but also to ourselves by focusing on inner speech. For example, we receive an invitation to a college party, but we haven't decided whether to go or not. We think and think, and remember the previous parties, and then we remember that there was that annoying official, Tibor, and the silly gossipers Yvette and Bella, who didn't even know the soap from the news – “No, so we're not 'going.'” And so the inner speech loops are crucial When making a decision, it can therefore rightly be considered part of the thinking process itself.
Lev Vygotsky, a Soviet psychologist who lived in the first half of the twentieth century, observed that children of a certain age often talk out loud to themselves, but gradually stop doing so as they grow up. According to his hypothesis, the disappearance of this is linked to the development of inner speech. According to him, inner speech is the absorption of outer speech.
There are philosophers who believed that inner speech is not actually speech, but a mental representation of it. American linguist and philosopher Ray Jackendoff claimed that internal monologue can be imagined by imitating the creation of external speech out loud within ourselves. But this is not real speech, just a simulation of it.
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One question to ask is why do we create internal speech that no one can hear? Well, on the one hand, it is not voluntary, nor is it an act, but reflex An act that can be intrusive. It is difficult to remain silent, and it cannot be done at any time based on an order or desire. If we try to focus on not thinking about anything and not generating internal speech, we are likely to create more.
But let's not despair, because inner speech is excellent for clarifying thoughts, and awareness of an existing thought can enhance the thinking process even on everyday matters. If we set our agenda through inner talk, we can better see what lies ahead, what we can modify, and how to organize. The question is: Is the production of inner speech a conscious action or just something that happens on its own?
This speech seems to be related to thought, but we do not know whether these speech episodes represent thoughts or not. Expressed by themOr they make thinking easier, or perhaps these are the thoughts themselves.
Stress, anxiety, and depression have a clear relationship with inner speech. Based on philosophers' studies of consciousness, inner monologue is a unique type of conscious experience, which seems to include the external activity of speech, but rather means the speech of the mind.
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