Schizophrenic language : the possibility of early detection
This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2014.
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10361-33122019-09-30T04:20:52Z Schizophrenic language : the possibility of early detection Nur, Nusrat Akhter, Mahmuda Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University English and humanities This thesis is submitted in a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2014. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis report. Includes bibliographical references (page 57-64). This research attempts to find out the language and communicative impairments of the patients with schizophrenia so that early detection will be possible through the analysis of the language patterns. It gives an introduction to language dysfunction in schizophrenic patients such as, problems in phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology and so on.Patients suffering from schizophrenia have also been found to be impaired in their pragmatic abilities in the comprehension of figurative language (e.g., metaphors, ironies, proverbs).The thought disorder is considered to be one of the most significant reasons behind their communication impairments. Along with this theory, other theories from Psycholinguistics and Discourse Analysis are used to identify and explain the impairments. This field of research is naturally bordering both psychology and linguistics, but has until now been ignored by most linguists. This paper provides an introduction to schizophrenia and language as an interdisciplinary field of research, as a way of integrating linguistic theory with psychological method.For the empirical data, interviews were conducted. This research study used a qualitative analysis of data addressing change in the production of language as measured by verbal fluency testing, as well as analysis of spontaneous speech of the participants. However, all the psychiatrists, speech therapists and the family members of the patients agreed that the patients with schizophrenia have several kinds of language impairments. They discussed about the patterns of the impairments and how those can be detected. This paper concluded with some of the ways in which the study of schizophrenia may offer new insights into the cognitive and neural architecture of the language system. Nusrat Nur B.A. in English 2014-06-22T06:26:24Z 2014-06-22T06:26:24Z 2014 2014-04 Thesis ID 09203004 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/3312 en BRAC University thesis reports are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 78 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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