THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE USAGE OF DIMINUTIVES IN THE CASE OF ROMANIANS
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE USAGE OF DIMINUTIVES IN THE CASE OF ROMANIANS

Summary/Abstract: The present study’s main objective is to identify the psychological and affective motivations that determine the speaker to use diminutives during the discursive act. A new type of paradigm is taken into account, a socio-cultural and psychological paradigm, which emphasizes the impact that the use of diminutives has on human interrelations. The research uses as a starting point the main features and characteristics of the Romanian people and a series of studies are performed in order to emphasize the psychological effects produced by the use of these structures on the speakers’ way of thinking. The present article also proposes to demonstrate that the use of diminutives is claimed from the psychological profile specific to the Romanian people, by closely following the connection between the linguistic level and the other levels: psychological and spiritual. The theoretical basis draws its sources from the realm of psycholinguistics, but also from the principles of pragmatics and sociolinguistics.. This study’s purpose is to identify and emphasize the cognitive and affective mechanisms involved in the process of forming diminutives. The main part of the present study contains the different stages of a sociolinguistic survey and a series of examples taken from the internet.

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