Cognitive Entropy in the Perceptual-Auditory Evaluation of Emotional Modal States of Foreign Language Communication Partner

The paper deals with the phenomenon of perceptual-auditory divergence in the evaluation of the foreign language communication partner’s emotional-modal state. The problem of “human – human” interaction (vice versa “man – machine”) is characterized by a very complex phenomenon associated with the communication “native language – foreign language” taking into account the idiosyncrasy of speech production and speech perception. The idiosyncrasy can be determined from the positions of the individual mixing of various types of below-specified information (e.g., biological, psychological, social, cognitive, etc.). All these factors affect the process of recognizing the communication partner’s emotional-modal state. Therefore, one can assume that the idiosyncratic features of the perceiver (in this case, the listener) affect, in turn, the evaluation of the emotional-modal state, primarily that of a foreign language communication partner. In our pilot study special emphasis is laid on this problem considered on the basis of Russian-German and German-Russian matches. The obtained data suggest a new model of perceptual-auditory processing of verbal stimuli including such components as perceptual-auditory idiosyncrasy and auditory-perceptual cognitive entropy.