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Publication details [#55516]

Zinken, Jörg, Caroline Blakemore and Katarzyna Zinken. 2011. Narrating psychological distress: Associations between cross-clausal integration and mental health difficulties. Applied Psycholinguistics 32 (2) : 263–274.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | distress | narrative | psychotherapy | syntactic amalgam

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that cross-clausal syntax analysis of mental health care patients’ narratives provides information on the severity of distress, which supports psychotherapeutical treatment decisions.