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Language and thought disorder in multilingual schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Bhatia Tej K.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12391
Subject(s) - hindi , psychology , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , linguistics , contrast (vision) , thought disorder , multilingualism , salient , neuroscience of multilingualism , cognitive psychology , psychosis , computer science , artificial intelligence , pedagogy , philosophy , psychiatry , neuroscience
The main goal of this article is fourfold: (1) to give an overview of the Multilingual Schizophrenia Project (MSP) together with the salient features of the language organization in the multilingual brain/mind; (2) to document and identify the speech traits of a female schizophrenic multilingual patient afflicted with a sub‐type of auditory schizophrenia in which the patient hears body‐internal voices; (3) to compare and contrast schizophrenic speech patterns with normal multilingual verbal behavior; and (4) to use language organization in the multilingual brain/mind as a source of evidence to decode language and thinking disturbance in schizophrenic subjects. This paper is a first‐of‐its kind analysis, exploring and documenting the linguistic nature of multilingual schizophrenia in Indian English, Hindi and Urdu. Although the analysis presented here is based on a single in‐depth case study, the generalizations drawn may be valid for other schizophrenic subjects.