
Coherence in Psychotic Discourse
Branca Telles Ribeiro(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 1. September 1994
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-19-506597-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
a significant contribution to the field of study of psychotic narrative and of discourse analysis more generally * Lorraine Obler, City University of New York *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line drawings, tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506597-8 (9780195065978)
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Branca Telles Ribeiro
Coherence in Psychotic Discourse
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Instructor in LinguisticsInstructor in Linguistics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil