Schizophasia

As a term from psychiatry, schizophasia describes a disturbed use of language, or a language disorder of schizophrenics .

The term was introduced by Emil Kraepelin in 1915 , for an incomprehensible language production with its own syntactic rules, in which, however, a sentence character has been retained. In today's psychopathology , schizophasia is also associated with terms such as “parasyntax”, “paragrammatism” and “ incoherence ”. It is differentiated from other incomprehensible forms of language use by schizophrenic patients, such as paraphasia (passing by), the use of self- invented neologisms or cryptolalia (private language).

The use of the term is, however, inconsistent. In the context of patholinguistics, a faulty neologism formation - in addition to echolalia , verbigeration , word salad and glossolalia - is also considered a development of schizophasia.

References and footnotes

1. ↑ Sentence based on Hadumod Bußmann (ed.): Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft , 3rd edition, 2002, Kröner, Lemma Schizophasie , p. 584. There literally “deviating language use”.
2. ↑ Sentence based on Friedrich Dorsch (ed.): Psychological Dictionary , 12th Edition, 1994, Huber, Lemma Schizophasie , p. 681.
3. ^ For example, Christian Scharfetter: Allgemeine Psychopathologie , 5th edition, 2002, Thieme, p. 160.
4. Jump up ↑ Christian Scharfetter: Allgemeine Psychopathologie , 5th edition, 2002, Thieme, p. 161.
5. ↑ So with Günter Peuser and Stefan Winter: Lexikon der Sprachtherapie: Terminologie der Patholinguistik , 2000, Fink, Lemma Schizophasie , p. 200. There literally "[...] difficult to understand language with [here the above list follows]".

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