Observing Expressive and Deviant Language in Schizophrenia

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ID20414158
AuthorsRichard M Billow (0000-0003-2510-7691), Jeffrey Rossman, Nona Lewis, Deberah Goldman, Charles S Raps, Charles Raps
Year1997
Volume12
Issue3
Pages205-216
Publication date1997-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMetaphor and Symbol (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1092-6488 • E-ISSN: 1532-7868
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1207/s15327868ms1203_3
OpenAlexW2014181162
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia often misuse language, but whether such people are nevertheless capable of appropriate figurative language has not been studied. We investigated linguistic competence in schizophrenia and the relation between psychopathology and linguistic expressivity. Participants were 108 male, hospitalized, IQ-matched patients with schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, and nonpsychiatric medical diagnoses. Free responses to a structured interview were analyzed. On measures of metaphoric, evocative, and idiomatic language, the speech of patients with schizophrenia was similar to other groups. As expected, patients with schizophrenia were also verbally more autistic and tangential but not more concrete. In all groups, there was a strong positive correlation between expressive and deviant language. We discuss the role of the primary and secondary processes in expressive and deviant language

Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Expressive language · Expressivity · Linguistic competence · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Psychiatry · Psychopathology · Clinical Psychology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology

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