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Language disorder in schizophrenic patients
Author(s) -
KRAMER SARAH
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01746.x
Subject(s) - psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , narrative , language disorder , discourse analysis , subject (documents) , linguistics , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , cognition , philosophy , library science , computer science
Patients with schizophrenia frequently present with ‘incoherent’ and ‘bizarre’ speech, leading to difficulties in communicating with other people. Discourse analysis allows the determination of where language processing breaks down for purposes of assessment and diagnosis. Procedural, narrative and conversational discourse samples are currently being obtained from 12 schizophrenic subjects within the same total environment. The application of a protocol to three discourse samples of one schizophrenic subject will be discussed.