Analysis of Language Behavior

This chapter analyzes some basic aspects of language used by individuals with schizophrenia and shows that the various impairments that become apparent can be summarized and interpreted by the terms perspective and frame. In order to highlight the ways in which disorders of thinking and language manifest themselves in schizophrenia, three areas where linguistics overlap with neuroscience and cognitive science in general were analyzed: metaphor, irony, and the coherence of conversations.