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DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A THREE-TIERED APPROACH TO SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE: FROM NEUROPATHOLOGY TO SPEECH

Graller, Matthew
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1435579787

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2015, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Linguistics.
Schizophrenia is a widely-studied, yet still fairly mysterious and debilitating mental disorder. The complexity and variety of symptoms, behaviors, and etiological hypotheses of schizophrenia make it tough to study formally, because it can often appear to have no form at all. Between patients and even within patients, schizophrenia can manifest in a range of different ways. Schizophrenia study lies at the center of both cognition and language, for as a formal thought disorder, schizophrenia often affects the way sufferers speak in distinct ways. The current study looks to resolve and connect various disparate theories of schizophrenia on three levels: neurophysiological, behavioral, and linguistic. Ideally, a connection (or at least a series of connections) can be made that will offer an explanation of linguistic behaviors of schizophrenia that incorporates evidence and theories at the levels of neural architecture and chemistry, behavior and cognition, and ultimately speech. Finally, we will move into a specific application of what we have learned by proposing a hypothetical experiment that could potentially advance the field of cognitive linguistics, specifically focusing on the process of salience attribution.
Mark Turner, PhD (Committee Chair)
Todd Oakley, PhD (Committee Member)
Fey Parrill, PhD (Committee Member)
43 p.
Linguistics
schizophrenia; language; mental disorder; linguistics; cognitive science

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  • Graller, M. (2015). DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A THREE-TIERED APPROACH TO SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE: FROM NEUROPATHOLOGY TO SPEECH [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1435579787

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Graller, Matthew. DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A THREE-TIERED APPROACH TO SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE: FROM NEUROPATHOLOGY TO SPEECH. 2015. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1435579787.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Graller, Matthew. "DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A THREE-TIERED APPROACH TO SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE: FROM NEUROPATHOLOGY TO SPEECH." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1435579787

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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