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Schizophrenic Neologism versus Aphasic Neologism: Characteristics in Writings of Japanese Schizophrenic Patients
Author(s) -
Moriyama Nariakira,
Nakao Hiroyuki
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1989.tb02561.x
Subject(s) - neologism , kana , kanji , linguistics , psychology , aphasia , audiology , medicine , philosophy , cognitive psychology , chinese characters
Three cases of schizophrenia with ideographic neologisms in Japanese are presented and compared with aphasic neologisms reported in Japanese literature. Schizophrenic neologisms are different from aphasic neologisms in nature. The contrast becomes obvious when both are compared in Japanese writing based on the dual writing system of kanji (Chinese characters, ideogram) and kana (phonetic characters, syllabogram).