Abstract
Since the first descriptions of schizophrenia, language disturbances have been referred to as formal thought disorder (Boer et. al, 2020). Within this context in this study we analyzed sentential negation in the speech of the patients with schizophrenia to find out whether psychopathology and thought disorders of the patients affect the language use. 50 patients with schizophrenia and 50 healthy subjects were included into the study. The results showed negative and affirmative sentences used by the patients were significantly different from the control group. We hypothesized that psychopathology of the patients with schizophrenia plays a central role in language use. At the end of the study patients were concluded to reflect their negative thoughts in thier speech and use more negative sentences.
Highlights
The schizophrenics’ language is considered pathological and the pathological character of schizophrenics' verbal expression arises from disturbed manner of thinking
The median test was used to test whether the patients with schizophrenia and control group differ in sentential negation, and the Chi-Square test was used to examine the differences between negative and affirmative sentence count in the same population
Median test was consistent with chi-square test and it revealed that there was significant difference between the schizophrenia patients and the control group in terms of sentential negation (p
Summary
The schizophrenics’ language is considered pathological and the pathological character of schizophrenics' verbal expression arises from disturbed manner of thinking. Cutting (1985) states despite some experimental evidence of a change in the perception or expression of the prosodic of phonemes, abnormalities are not marked in schizophrenic speech in the phonemic level, but of the syntactic level Özcan and Kuruoğlu (2017) state that patients with schizophrenia use simple sentences more than complex sentences. Of the semantic level, Cutting states that the semantic component of schizophrenic language is not obviously distracted in the large majority of patients, but referring to pragmatics he states the patients with schizophrenia fail to understand the meaning of words in context, cannot communicate their intended meaning to others, produce insufficient internal cohesion in their own speech, do not ensure the listener’s needs and talk irrelevantly rather than incompetently (Wrobel, 1990). Taking into consideration the linguistic approach and psychopathology in schizophrenia, the aim of this study is to compare sentential negation in the speech of the patients with schizoprenia and healthy subjects and find out whether the psychopathology of the patients affect the language use
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