Why and how do we talk to each other in our heads?
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Caravaggio Narcissus © Caravaggio / Wikimedia Commons
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 min
Why and how do we talk to each other in our heads?
What is this incessant little voice for?
How to study this interior language so intimate and so universal?
What do our inner monologues say?
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Welcome to listen to our little inner voice, the one that speaks in our head!
You know her, you too, you probably talk to each other inwardly, silently, to give you advice, to motivate you, to lecture you or to ramble.
What do our interior monologues say?
Is it possible to study them?
Our guests, two exceptional researchers, took up this insane challenge: to study speech and internal language.
And it's a whole (interior) world that opens up to us!
With
Hélène Loevenbruck
, CNRS researcher at the Psychology and Neuro Cognition Laboratory of Grenoble III University, member of the Babylab laboratory and CNRS 2006 bronze medal
Stéphanie Smadja
, HDR lecturer at the University of Paris in linguistics and coordinator of the
Monologuer
research program
since 2010, which today brings together around 45 researchers, artists and civil society actors.
She has published numerous books on the subject with Editions Hermann, including
Les troubles du langue urbaine.
For further
The little voice
, report on Radio Canada
What is its role in the development of our personality and our learning?
What happens when it goes off the rails?
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