The Cognitive Style of Decision Making Narrations: INDIVIDUAL INVARIANCE AND COGNITIVE AUTOMATA

This article proposes a new model for the analysis of texts, particularly adapted to the study of verbalizations. The model has been built to characterize the invariance between texts written by the same author. It includes two levels :-at the enunciative level, lexical and syntactical regularities in the expressions of an identical intention are represented by « enunciative patterns » ;-at the cognitive level, the global organization of discourses is taken into account and common points between various verbalizations of a same task are captured in « cognitive patterns ». « Cognitive automata » are defined to sum-up all information collected. They provide a formal approach of what language tells us about the one that tells it.