
Coherence in Psychotic Discourse
Branca Telles Ribeiro(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 1. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-19-506615-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line drawings, tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
553 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506615-9 (9780195066159)
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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