Language and schizophrenia

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This book investigates the functioning of linguistic phenomena, especially in the area of semantics and pragmatics of the language of schizophrenics. By making semantics and pragmatics the primary objects of this work, the author departs from the traditional approach of those psycholinguistic and psychiatric studies which aim to explain how the language of schizophrenics differs from the common language. This book, on the other hand, basically attempts to provide the reason why this language di…

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Full title :Language and schizophrenia / Janusz Wróbel.

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Publication Date:1990.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):J. Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:1990.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (133 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9027278415, 9789027278418, 1283328291, 9781283328296, 9786613328298, 6613328294
oclc:ocn645205406
LC Classification:RC514
Dewey Decimal:616.89/82

LANGUAGE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgement; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Linguistics and Psychiatry Toward the Language of Schizophrenia; 1.1. Classical, classificational attitude; 1 2. Nonorthodox attitudes; 1.2.1. In the circle of humanistic psychiatry; 1.2.1.1. Uncommon conviction no. 1: We, the healthy people, are not logical, after all; 1.2.1.2. Uncommon conviction no. 2: It is we who bear the blame for communicative failure with schizophrenics; 1.2.2. In the circle of ethnography -- Anna Gruszecka's theory

1.2.3. In the circle of cognitive approach-a chance for solution?2. The Schizophrenic Entangled in the Speech Act: A Pragmatic View of the Sources of Schizophrenics' Communication Failure; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Emotion as substitute for calculation and manipulation in schizophrenics' selection of linguistic means; 2.3. The role of expectation in the language communication of schizophrenics; 2.4. The deictical level in schizophrenics' utterances; 2.5. A view of the receiver of schizophrenics' messages; 2.6. The schizophrenic silence; 2.7. Conclusions

3. The Schizophrenic Entangled in Meanings. Part I: The Relationship …