Coherence in Psychotic Discourse

Zusatztext a significant contribution to the field of study of psychotic narrative and of discourse analysis more generally Klappentext This fascinating study explores the ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient. Ribeiro analyzes the discourse between a doctor and a patient who is under an acute psychotic crisis! and then later! when the patient is deemed recovered. Ribeiro looks at how the participants jointly establish referential meaning! and how topic coherence is achieved or breaks down. She then considers how the participants convey superordinate messages! metamessages! and how the patient signals and assesses the frame of talk. Ribeiro concludes that psychotic discourse! while incoherent on the level of topic! may be coherent on another level--that of frame. Using sociolinguistic discourse analysis! conversational analysis! and frame analysis! with a dose of theory from contemporary cognitive psychology! Ribeiro's book demonstrates the importance of contextualization in interaction. Zusammenfassung Based on analysis of two psychiatric interviews, this book investigates ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient. In the first interview, the patient is diagnosed as being in an acute psychotic state. In the second, the same patient is considered to be fully recovered and ready to be discharged from hospital. Ribeiro concludes that psychotic discourse, while incoherent on the level of topic, is coherent on another - that of frame. Hence both topic and frame analysis contribute to an understanding of psychotic discourse and of the contexts of talk where discourse emerges.

Product details

• Authors: Branca Telles Ribeiro, Branca Telles (Instructor in Linguistics Ribeiro, Ribeiro Branca Telles
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1994
• EAN: 9780195065978
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506597-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Psychiatry, Sociolinguistics, Abnormal psychology