Language in Psychiatry - A Handbook of Clinical Practice - Jonathan Fine†
Meaning oddly: how a speaker can sound strange
Language in Psychiatry - A Handbook of Clinical Practice - Jonathan Fine†
Jonathan Fine† [+]
Bar-Ilan University
Jonathan Fine, who died in September 2015, taught in the department of English at Bar-Ilan University. He published studies on the language of psychiatric syndromes including pervasive developmental disorders, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder. His other research includes discourse analysis, systemic functional theory, first and second language acquisition and genre. He edited or authored five books on language in use including Language in Psychiatry: A Handbook of Clinical Practice (Equinox).
Description
This chapter starts with the different kinds of meanings and outlines how disruptions in each kind of meaning sound clinically. Succeeding chapters map specific atypicalities of meaning and wording onto disorders and diagnostic criteria.