Content: LANGUAGE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgement
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Linguistics and Psychiatry Toward the Language of Schizophrenia
1.1. Classical, classificational attitude
1 2. Nonorthodox attitudes
1.2.1. In the circle of humanistic psychiatry
1.2.1.1. Uncommon conviction no. 1: We, the healthy people, are not logical, after all
1.2.1.2. Uncommon conviction no. 2: It is we who bear the blame for communicative failure with schizophrenics
1.2.2. In the circle of ethnography --
Anna Gruszecka's theory. 1.2.3. In the circle of cognitive approach-a chance for solution?2. The Schizophrenic Entangled in the Speech Act: A Pragmatic View of the Sources of Schizophrenics' Communication Failure
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Emotion as substitute for calculation and manipulation in schizophrenics' selection of linguistic means
2.3. The role of expectation in the language communication of schizophrenics
2.4. The deictical level in schizophrenics' utterances
2.5. A view of the receiver of schizophrenics' messages
2.6. The schizophrenic silence
2.7. Conclusions. 3. The Schizophrenic Entangled in Meanings. Part I: The Relationship Between Denotation and Connotation in the Language of Schizophrenics3.1. Introduction
3.2. Fundamentals of the semantic approach
3.3. The material
3.3.1. The meaning of FATHER
3.3.1.1. The denotative semes
3.3.1.2. The connotative semes
3.3.2. The term FATHER in schizophrenic language
3.4. Conclusions
3.5. Interpretation
3.5.1. Introductory notes
3.5.2. Specific usage of the term FATHER by schizophrenics in the light of Laplantine's cultural matrices. 3.6. Further examples of the use of semic analysis of the semantic peculiarities in schizophrenic language3.6.1. Analysis of the meaning of the word CURRENT in G's statements
3.6.2. POLAND in M's texts
3.7. Conclusions
4. The Schizophrenic Entangled in Meanings. Part II:The Role of Harmony, Symmetry and Rhythm in the Schizophrenic's Organization of Utterances
4.1. Stereotypes of the human condition in the utterances of the schizophrenic G based on the example of the conditions of persons forming in G's utterances the lexical field FRIENDS. 4.2. Schizophrenic harmony of opposites as a phenomenon of semantic symmetry4.3. The linguistic phenomenon of schizophrenic series
4.4. Semantic systems of schizophrenics
4.5. Conclusions
5. The Schizophrenic Entangled in the Sign: Schizophrenia as a Semiotic Illness
5.1. The boundaries of language, the boundaries of the world: the role of language in perception of reality
5.2. When everything has meaning: the schizophrenic overload of meanings
5.3. When your thoughts are not your own: the interpenetration of the external and internal world in schizophrenia
5.4. Conclusion.