جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "اسکیزوفرنی" در نشریات گروه "ادبیات و زبان ها"

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects its patients' cognitive functions and different levels of language. Discourse is one of these levels that is severely affected by this disease. In this research, 11 schizophrenic patients and 11 healthy individuals were compared using the interpersonal metafunction in Halliday’s systemic functional grammar. To collect data, we used The Persian Aphasia Battery, Western Aphasia Battery, Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination, the story “Frog, where are you?” and questions such as “tell one of your good and bad memory, talk about Nowruz, etc.”. We employed SPSS software to analyze the data.  The findings showed that there was a significant difference in the speech of patients with schizophrenia compared to healthy people in terms of the use of items such as polarity, modality, past and present tenses, declarative, WH-interrogatives and imperative speech functions, subject, complement and circumstantial adjuncts. However, no significant difference was found in the use of future tense, yes/no interrogatives and suggestion speech functions. According to the findings of this research and in line with previous studies, interpersonal speech systems can be used to provide a profile of the intensity of emotional and social disorders and incoherent speech in schizophrenic patients.

The age of postmodernism is the age of life that critiqued all the components of the modern age as well as the age of tradition. This study seeks to investigate the relationship between the components of the postmodern school and schizophrenia as one of the personality disorders. Schizophrenia, which means mental breakdown and multi-personality, is one of the components of postmodern personality. The importance of examining this issue, given the increasing advances in science and technology, and the increasing complexity of social structures, which are accompanied by cultural, religious, political, social and economic differences, requires further investigation. Accordingly, issues related to social control and its relationship with the nature of individual identity in postmodernism have been studied by the components of schizophrenia. In this study, based on the findings, it is concluded that postmodern society is associated with superficiality and partiality, so this superficial and fragmented view at the individual level is shown by a type of schizophrenia. Thus, in postmodern society, alienation has given way to fragmentation and this fragmented self, is Schizophrenia itself. This research also pays attention to the critique of two examples of postmodern Iranian stories "Night Orchestra of the Woods Orchestra" and "Gypsy by the Fire" who considers them as examples of postmodern Iranian novels. One of the main results of this research is the aspect of schizophrenia in the text of the story and the prominent characters of the story.

The relation between language and thought has been studied from different perspectives. Analytic philosophy with language as its core subject، considers the mentioned relation as the main subject of analysis، which is clearly traceable in the speech of the individuals who have deficiency either in their thought or in their language. Hence، the speech of those schizophrenic patients who have no problem in their language، but have thought disorders could be an appropriate choice. This paper was aimed to present an analysis based on analytic philosophy، on the relation of language and thought in such patients، indicative in their Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVHs) and delusions. The framework was the philosophy of mind، which considers the nature، state and functions of mind، and also discusses the foundation of the Theory of Mind (ToM). Disorders of ToM will lead to auditory verbal hallucinations and delusional speech، both based on inner speech.

The most important speech disorder in schizophrenic patients with positive symptoms is incoherency which has a wide range, and is related to diverse factors such as hallucination and delusion. In this research, to find out the relationship between incoherency of speech with hallucination and delusion, the spontaneous speech of eighteen Persian-speaking schizophrenic individuals with positive symptoms was investigated. The correlation of two types of verbal hallucinations (variable and invariable) with two types of delusions (synchronic and diachronic), which have been identified during the research, was studied statistically. Subsequently the relationship between incoherency and delusions was calculated as well. The findings reveal that the incoherency in some patients is lasting, whereas in some others it is remarkably decreased. Status and quantity of the incoherency is related to the two above-named delusions, and each of these delusions could be related to the above-named hallucinations.