PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FEATURES OF DETERMINING THE FORMATION LEVEL OF PERSONALITY'S NARRATIVE COMPETENCE

The purpose of the article is to develop psycholinguistic tools for diagnosing the level of formation of narrative competence of personality as an important prerequisite for its development. Research methods. The study uses a set of author's methods: (a) modeling as a method of constructing and analyzing of a structural model of narrative competence of personality; (b) psycholinguistic methods of determining the level of formation of narrative competence of personality; (c) methods of mathematical statistics; (d) expert evaluation. Results. The structural model of narrative competence as a dynamic configuration of pre-semantic, semantic and meta-semantic levels of understanding and generation of narrative expressions by personality is developed and characterized; this model in turn became a basis for developing psycholinguistic diagnostic tools. The author proposed a method for determining formation levels of narrative competence of personality, which involves selection of texts meeting certain criteria for processing; development of diagnostic tasks for these texts; algorithm for determining a certain formation level of narrative competence of respondents depending on their results of proposed tasks. According to the results of diagnostics, three main and two transitional levels of narrative competence of respondents have been identified. The algorithm for determining of these levels is presented in the form of a structural diagnostic procedure, the validity of which is confirmed by correlations with expert evaluation. Conclusions. The proposed methods are defined as effective tools for diagnosing the level of formation of narrative competence of personality. The main advantage of these methods is the possibility of its application for diagnosing of respondents based on their processing of fiction texts without restrictions for the language they speak. Keywords: personality, narrative, narrative competence, criteria of formation of narrative competence, pre-semantic, semantic, meta-semantic levels of formation of narrative competence.