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 This fascinating study explores the ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient. Ribeiro analyses 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....

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• Authors: Branca Telles Ribeiro, Branca Telles (Instructor in Linguistics Ribeiro, Ribeiro Branca Telles
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.1994
• EAN: 9780195066159
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506615-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguis; Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Psychiatry, Sociolinguistics