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Author Ribeiro, Branca Telles.

Title Coherence in psychotic discourse / Branca Telles Ribeiro.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford studies in sociolinguistics
Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Coherence in Psychotic Talk. Coherence in Psychotic Discourse. Psychotic Discourse: Thought or Talk Disorders? Organization of This Study -- 2. About the Psychiatric Interviews. Definition of the Situation. Analyzing Recorded Interviews -- 3. Analyzing Discourse: Frame and Topic Coherence. Analyzing Talk: Frame and Topic. Analyzing Talk in Interviews -- 4. Conflicting Frames in the Discharge Interview. The Dominant Frames. Negotiating Alternative Frames -- 5. Topic Coherence in the Discharge Interview. A Topic Analysis of the Interview. Topic and Coherence. Frames and Topics -- 6. Topicality in the Admitting Interview: Where Coherence Breaks Down. On Establishing a Referent -- 7. Frame Analysis in the Admitting Interview: Where Coherence Emerges. The Institutional Frame of the Psychiatric Interview: "Dona Jurema, lets talk for a little while." The Noninstitutional Frame of the Psychotic Crisis: "Mother, you know everything." The Emergence of Consistent Texts in the Psychotic Fabrication.
8. Toward Listening. A Brief Discussion -- Appendix A. Definitions of Language and Cognitive Behaviors -- Appendix B. Summary of the Patient's Stay in the Hospital -- Appendix C. The Discharge Interview: Topics, Subtopics, and Components -- Appendix D. Transcripts.
Summary This monograph investigates ways of establishing coherence in the discourse of a thought-disordered patient, by analyzing two interviews - one where the patient is in an acute psychotic state, and the other where the same patient is considered fully recovered.
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Subject Psychoses -- Patients -- Language -- Case studies.
Psychoses -- Patients.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Psychoses.
Discourse analysis -- Case studies.
Discourse analysis.
Cohesion (Linguistics) -- Case studies.
Cohesion (Linguistics)
Interview, Psychological -- methods.
Physician-Patient Relations.
Indexed Term Clinical psychology
Sociolinguistics
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Ribeiro, Branca Telles. Coherence in psychotic discourse. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (DLC) 92049156
ISBN 1423764358 (electronic book)
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9780195065978 (alkaline paper)
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9780195066159 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0195066154 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0195065972 (alkaline paper)
0195066154 (paperback ; alkaline paper)