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Publication details [#8664]
Schwartz, Steven. 1982. Is there a schizophrenic language? The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 5 : 579–588. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Annotation
S. reviews several hypotheses concerning what is wrong with schizophrenic speech, and criticizes their methods and lack of insight into the complexity of speech and language. He argues that the problem is not in language itself, but in processing information and in selective attention.
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Asarnow, Robert F. and John M. Watkins. 1982. Schizophrenic thought disorder: Linguistic incompetence or information-processing impairment? ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Chapman, Loren J. and Jean P. Chapman. 1982. How should schizophrenic thought and language be studied? ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Hemsley, David R. 1982. Failure to establish appropriate response sets: An explanation for a range of schizophrenic phenomena? ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Knight, Raymond A. and Judith E. Sims-Knight. 1982. Evaluating pigeonholing as an explanatory construct for schizophrenics' cognitive deficiencies. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Mancuso, James C., Theodore R. Sarbin and William A. Heerdt. 1982. Schizophrenic language: An ephemeron hiding an ephemeron. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Nuechterlein, Keith H. 1982. Schizophrenic information-processing deficit: What type or level of processing is disordered? ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)