Strategies in inner speech
Abstract
This paper presents the results obtained from a questionnaire-based research project on inner speech, primarily focusing on its Hungarian adaptation involving 1675 participants. The response patterns of individuals to the questionnaire items are presented by analyzing the factors formed by the items. These analyses show the classes of responses triggered by the items along a scale ranging from never, has occurred before, sometimes, often, to always. Beyond analyzing response patterns, by uncovering variances within the sample, we identified respondent groups – i.e., response strategies – that reflect variations in individuals’ experiences regarding the nature of their inner speech.
Five main strategies were identified, which reflect individuals’ experiences of inner speech across groups of items: the Uncontrolled, Dialogic-Sentence, Monologic-Sentence, Monologic-Condensed and Hesitant strategies. These strategies may indicate reflections on inner speech and may suggest that inner speech is a simulation model of external speech, involving internal sensorimotor activities.
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