Ebook: Language and Schizophrenia
Author: Wrobel Janusz
- Tags: Schizophrenics -- Language. Schizophrenic Language. Schizophrenics. Medicine. Science. Language and languages. SCIENCE -- Applied Sciences. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Inventions. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Se
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam/Philadelphia
- Language: English
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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, Read more...
Abstract: 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 differs. The shift from description to explanation required the development of a new psycholinguistic m