This fascinating study explores the ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient. Ribeiro analyzes 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.
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"I know of no other work in this area that pays such close attention to the moment-by-moment linguistics and interactional work that can furnish the evidence required for a study of cross-cultural differences among psychoses. It is detailed studies like the present one that lay the groundwork on which to build cross-cultural comparisons."--Anthropological Linguistics
"Ribeiro has written an intriguing book....Coherence in Psychotic Discourse stands as a solid exemplar of qualitative discourse analysis."--Language in Society
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Branca Telles Ribeiro is at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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Ms. Ribeiro's study offered practicing psychiatrists the opportunity of reflecting on the need to take interaction processes into account while evaluating a patient. She also created opportunities for Brazilian applied linguists to study yet another context of language use -- the medical clinic. Her study reveals great theoretical knowledge, painstaking analysis of data and an effort to contribute to the development of medical practices -- an achievement to be praised by academics as well as patients.
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subtopic categorization, official topic agenda, admitting interview, medical examination frame, introducing subtopics, rerun signal, sharp semantic change, discharge interview, psychotic frame, progressive symmetry, psychotic discourse, baseline posture, psychotic speaker, topic coherence, psychotic crisis, coherence breaks, topic discontinuity, discourse coheres, conflicting frames, topic accessibility, interview frame, more symmetrical relationship, frame embeddings, other hospitalizations, institutional framings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dona Jurema, Doctor Edna, Grandma Lena, Frame Analysis, Where Coherence Breaks Down, Analyzing Discourse, Dona Jurcma, Sao Paulo, Brazilian Portuguese, Doutora Edna, Virgin Mary, Francisco Ferreira de Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Erving Goffman, Grandma Jurema, Miss Frumkin, Discourse There, Pinel Hospital, Guardian Angel, Psychotic Talk Browse Sample Pages:
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subtopic categorization, official topic agenda, admitting interview, medical examination frame, introducing subtopics, rerun signal, sharp semantic change, discharge interview, psychotic frame, progressive symmetry, psychotic discourse, baseline posture, psychotic speaker, topic coherence, psychotic crisis, coherence breaks, topic discontinuity, discourse coheres, conflicting frames, topic accessibility, interview frame, more symmetrical relationship, frame embeddings, other hospitalizations, institutional framings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dona Jurema, Doctor Edna, Grandma Lena, Frame Analysis, Where Coherence Breaks Down, Analyzing Discourse, Dona Jurcma, Sao Paulo, Brazilian Portuguese, Doutora Edna, Virgin Mary, Francisco Ferreira de Souza, Rio de Janeiro, Erving Goffman, Grandma Jurema, Miss Frumkin, Discourse There, Pinel Hospital, Guardian Angel, Psychotic Talk Browse Sample Pages:
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- Interpreting As a Discourse Process (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Cynthia B. Roy in Front Matter
- The Language of Turn and Sequence (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Cecilia E. Ford in Front Matter
- Kids Talk: Strategic Language Use in Later Childhood (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Susan M. Hoyle in Front Matter
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