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PubMed1979

[Word play and schizophrenic language disorder - what constitutes the difference?].

The listener often perceives a similarity between humorous comments by schizophrenic patients and linguistic word plays, especially puns. A structural analysis of specific examples illustrates the basic difference. In 'good' as well as 'bad' word plays the humorous effect stems from the surprising similarity of word pairs (homonyms and homophones), while the seemingly humorous comments of the schizophrenic patient are rooted in an alteration of the semantic field of the word(s) employed. In spite of certain similarities in superficial structure there is a basic and specific difference in the semantic structure of these two forms of word play.

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PubMed1977

[Structure of the use of symbols in schizophrenic language].

The structure of the use of symbols in schizophrenia is examined, based on a recorded text spoken by a 35-year-old schizophrenic teacher (female). At specific points in this text, symbolic usage can be determined. The structural analysis illustrates a schizophrenic alteration which exists in each case through the substitution of a secondary meaning for a primary one. This structure is present in all cases. (In addition, the text also contains a symbol stemming from folk tradition.) This structure is identical with the structure of linguistic alteration in schizophrenics as well as that of the structure of schizophrenic delusions. This present study concentrates on the formal analysis of the use of symbols and does not present a close analysis of the content.

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PubMed1976

[Language in schizophrenic patients].

The author tries to analyze the results of research on schizophrenics language during the last thirty years. The almost permanent contradictions of these results leads the author to the conclusion that there is no evidence for a basic disturbance in schizophrenic language. Two hypothesis are proposed to explain the contradictory results 1) the exclusively clinical definition of schizophrenia is of minimal utility as a frame-work for psychometric and linguistic research programs. 2) psychometric and linguistic tests seem to have no reliability to elucidate a phenomenea as complex as the verbal expression of the schizophrenic.

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PubMed1979

Schizophrenic thought disorders: bizarre associations and intermingling.

The authors assessed bizarre verbalizations elicited from 37 schizophrenic and 16 nonschizophrenic patients. Interviews with subjects indicated that much bizarre schizophrenic language results from patients intermingling material from past and current experiences into their verbalizations. This intermingled material comes from many different problem areas rather than one central emotional complex. It does not arise from emotional overresponsiveness, overinvolved thinking, or delusional ideation. Two factors hypothesized as responsible for bizarre schizophrenic language are the schizophrenic's monitoring problems and difficulty maintaining perspective about his own behavior.

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PubMed1978

Intermingling and disordered logic as influences on schizophrenic 'thought disorders'.

A technique was devised to elicit bizarre or idiosyncratic responses from 30 young schizophrenics, who were then re-interviewed a week later to determine the reasons for each patient's idiosyncratic verbalizations. Taped interviews of the schizophrenics, scored along a series of rating scales, indicated: (1) An overt mechanism involved in bizarre schizophrenic language is a tendency to intermingle into their responses material from their current and past experiences. (2) Careful analysis suggests that the seemingly bizarre intermingled material of schizophrenics usually is close to the original "correct" topic. (3) The bizarre intermingled material is related to the patients' personal lives. (4) The intermingled material does not usually represent a failure to screen out or repress primitive drive dominated sexual or aggressive material. (5) Disordered logic was not a major factor in accounting for bizarre schizophrenic language.

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PubMed1991

[Language disorders in schizophrenia].

Psychiatrists, psycholinguists and linguists have been interested in the language disorders of schizophrenia. Physicians have described their semiology. Psycholinguists have tried to show their structural alterations, using standardized tests in the fields of syntax, semantics and more recently, prosody. We try to present Benveniste's and Culioli's Enunciation Theory and Irigaray's works. Only a theory which studies the dynamic aspects of language would be of some use for the analysis of schizophrenic language.

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PubMed1977

Patterns of dysfunction in schizophrenic patients on an aphasia test battery.

Twenty-seven schizophrenic patients free of any known neurologic deficit were tested with an aphasia test battery. The objective of the research was to derive a profile of schizophrenic language performance to permit its comparison with the profiles characteristic of aphasia, apraxia of speech, generalized intellectual impairment, and confused language. Results indicate that schizophrenic patients exhibit a profile of language performance distinctive from those found in aphasia, apraxia of speech, confusion, or generalized intellectual impairment and demonstrate that the disruption of language in schizophrenia is not aphasic in nature.

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PubMed1992

Language comprehension in schizophrenics and their brothers.

Disturbances in language functioning may be associated with familial vulnerability to schizophrenia. Language comprehension, measured by the Luria-Nebraska Relational Concepts Factor Scale, was evaluated in 36 schizophrenic probands and their nonschizophrenic adult brothers (n = 41), and in 18 normal controls. Language comprehension performance was a function of psychiatric diagnosis in the brothers. Brothers who met criteria for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders showed significantly reduced language performance compared with unaffected brothers and normal controls. Moreover, abnormal language performance was exhibited by significantly more probands and spectrum-disordered brothers than by the normal controls and the brothers without schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Finally, language performance was not significantly different for 31 pairs of schizophrenic probands and their brothers. Impaired language comprehension appeared comparatively specific in this sample of relatives, as groups were not significantly different on measures of nonlinguistic concept formation (Wisconsin Card Sorting Test) and general intellectual functioning (WAIS-R Information and Block design). Results suggest that impaired language comprehension is associated with familial vulnerability to schizophrenia, and that this disturbance may be most severe in relatives diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.

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PubMed1979

Telemetered EEG-EOG during psychotic behaviors of schizophrenia.

In an effort to establish correlations between abnormal behaviors characteristic of schizophrenia and simultaneous cerebral electrical activity, EEGs and electro-oculograms (EOGs) were continuously recorded for 2 to 24 hours by radiotelemetry from 40 patients with schizophrenia and 12 normal control subjects. Trained observers recorded specific behavior patterns permitting visual and computer analysis of EEG during hallucinations, stereotypy, catatonia, psychomotor blocking, and other characteristic manifestations of schizophrenia. Electroencephalographic abnormalities consisting of focal slow or spike activity over either temporal region were found in nearly half of the patients so recorded. In contrast to the EEG during ictal episodes of epilepsy, the abnormal wave forms of schizophrenic patients seldom coincided with episodes of blocking, stereotypy, or other abnormal behaviors. Increased extraocular activity or blinking were recorded in a majority of patients, but were not consistently associated with the abnormal behavior or perceptual events.

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PubMed1979

Verbal behavior and schizophrenia. The semantic dimension.

Through the use of computer analysis, the content of the speech of schizophrenics is shown to be distinct from that of the speech of nonschizophrenic psychiatric patients. The data shed light on qualities that delineate some aspects of "bizarreness" in speech of schizophrenics, provide some insight into the diversity of postulated "defects" in schizophrenic thinking, and provide further understanding of the diagnostic process in schizophrenia.

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PubMed1978

Verbal conditioning of male and female schizophrenics as a function of experimenter proximity.

Verbal conditioning of male and female schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics was observed as Ss sat at different distances and orientations from an E who delivered a positive word/positive tone reinforcer ("Good"). Results indicated that the presence vs. absence of diagnostic differences in learning depended on (a) the sex of the Ss; and (b) the distance that Ss sat from the E. The absence of overall diagnostic group differences in learning and the finding that in some proxemic conditions schizophrenics learned more than nonschizophrenics are consistent with the view that under appropriate conditions schizophrenics emit behaviors that are incompatible with an assumption of schizophrenic deficit.

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