Abstract
The authors propose a pragmatic and dialogic models allowing to uncover, in the most objective way possible, the discontinuities found in verbal interactions between a schizophrenic patient and a normal interlocutor. We will then look at the potential relationship between these discontinuities and the syndrome’s specificities, and at a more general level, we will discuss how they relate to the question of incoherence and thought disorders disorders. The model that we propose at this point in our investigation describes four clearly distinguishable types of discontinuity . These are compared empirically to some of the diagnostic and psychopharmacological specificities of the disorganized and paranoid syndromes. Our approach thus may have diagnostic power. This pragmatic approach to cognitive psychopathology allows us to contemplate the possibility of clarifying or even operationalizing the notion of formal thought disorders disorders.
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Notes
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Here, we interpret the notion of incoherence in terms of discontinuity .
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Transcription conventions: (…) stands for the beginning or end of a conversational sequence; ( → ) stands for prolonged pronunciation of a linguistic sound; ( ↑) stands for rising intonation; ( ↓) stands for falling intonation; (inaudible) means that the passage was inaudible (sometimes with duration indicated); capital letters mean that the speaker stressed the word; +5+ stands for a silence of 5 s. Information likely to be important for understanding and analyzing the transcription is given in parentheses. Ambiguous passages are shown in brackets. For ethical reasons, names, places, and dates have been changed to guarantee the anonymity of all participants.
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The utterance act performed in X56, “I was born in S” is the constituent which, given the argumentative structure of I2, should in theory satisfy the discursive constraints imposed by I11’s directing component.
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A third type of decisive discontinuity will be published in 2013.
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Musiol, M., Verhaegen, F. (2014). Investigating Discourse Specificities in Schizophrenic Disorders. In: Rebuschi, M., Batt, M., Heinzmann, G., Lihoreau, F., Musiol, M., Trognon, A. (eds) Interdisciplinary Works in Logic, Epistemology, Psychology and Linguistics. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 3. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03044-9_14
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