Publications
Publication details [#2066]
Chaika, Elaine. 1983. Linguistics looks at psychiatry: A study in the analysis of discourse. In Pietro, Robert J. Di, William Frawley and Alfred Wedel, eds. The first Delaware symposium on language studies: Selected papers. Delaware UP. pp. 106–118.
Annotation
C. argues that, in general, psychiatry downplays the public and social nature of language, viewing it as a private system that each person can and does use more or less as he or she wishes.