This article focuses on the discourse of Ger¬man psychological journalism by reviewing works that conceptualize psychotherapeutic, scientific-psychological, and popular-psycho¬logical communication. It is hypothesized that nouns verbalizing change are characteristic of German-language psychological publica¬tions. These include terms denoting changes themselves as well as obstacles to change such as Veränderung, Entwicklung, Wandel, Trans-formation, Trauma, Krise, etc. To verify this hypothesis, a quantitative-discursive analysis was conducted using materials from the jour¬nal Psychologie Heute published between 2013 and 2025. Methods of computational lin¬guistics were employed, specifically utilizing the corpus manager AntConc. From the total of 4,348,563 word tokens within the research corpus, all contexts including lexemes signi¬fying change were extracted. The study dem-onstrated that these nouns do not rank among the most frequent words in the analyzed corpus. However, it also revealed significant discrepancies between their usage patterns in the studied corpus compared to a reference corpus. Special attention is given to context- semantic analyses of collocations with these selected lexical items. It is concluded that col¬locational patterns contribute to terminologi¬cal precision and serve discussions related to current social issues in the field of German popular psychology.
Translated title of the contributionExpression of Meaning ‘Change’: A Discourse Dominant in German Psychological Journalism?
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)50-67
Number of pages18
JournalНаучный диалог
Volume15
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 27 Jan 2026

    Research areas

  • AntConc, German psychological journalism, Psychologie Heute, corpus-based methods, discursive dominant, popular psychology discourse

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