What are you saying when you are talking about…?

What is it about?

In the article we described and illustrated with examples a procedure for isolating a hidden story from a monologue on an assigned topic. The procedure involved four stages: 1) collecting data and preparing transcripts; 2) identifying out-of-key elements; 3) analysing and interpreting a text by means of linguistic and literary theory devices; 4) formulating a hidden story. In the process of deducing a hidden story from narratively out- of-key elements the vital part was identifying the rules of speech and analysing the contexts in which they were used in the monologue. The hidden story was reconstructed in the form of a one-level narrative pattern on the basis of information inferred from different contexts of using the speech rules, as well as information which was explicit in the monologue. In the article we also discussed the theoretical and clinical value and new trends in the research on hidden stories.

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Why is it important?

Our suggestion as to the method for reconstructing a hidden story from a monologue, in brief, draws on the phenomenological and hermeneutic approach. In our analysis we concentrate on revealing meanings hidden in monologues. We, however, work them out from the rules of language usage, identifiable in linguistics and the literary theory, which are used by the speaking person