A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices

Collins, Luke; Semino, Elena; Demjén, Zsófia; Hardie, Andrew; Moseley, Peter; Woods, Angela; Alderson-Day, Ben

doi:10.1080/13546805.2020.1842727

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“…It therefore becomes difficult to make any reliable claim about the greater engagement with the topic of morality and instruction of the didactic corpus when compared with the reference corpus. The LR measure corroborates this: if a word has the same relative frequency across the corpora, its LR value is 0; if it is twice as common in the analyzed corpus, its LR value is 1, and every additional point represents a doubling of the ratio (Collins et al 2020). In Table 3, "prudence" stands out as the term with the highest LL and LR values, but the overall picture suggests that both corpora include the topic of morality to similar degrees.…”

Section: Testing the Original Hypothesismentioning

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“Replete with instruction and rational amusement”?: Unexpected Features in the Register of British Didactic Novels, 1778–1814

Misset¹

2022

Tackling the Toolkit: Plotting Poetry Through Computational Literary Studies

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British didactic novels of the turn of the 19th century have been defined as works of fiction where instruction in moral codes of behavior rather than imaginative elements is the primary focus (Havens 2017, p. 5). My research aims to investigate the generic specificities of such novels by working with the open-source software TXM and AntConc to compare two corpora of novels published between 1778 and 1814 in Britain. These corpora were created using reviews from the Monthly Review and the Critical Review. Contrary to my hypothesis, a lexical comparison of the two corpora shows that the novels they contain do not materially differ in their use of lexis related to instruction and morality. This leads me to reassess the basis for the early reception of didacticism in these novels. Fruitful new hypotheses are generated using both corpus stylistics and close reading.

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Section: Testing the Original Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 64%

“Replete with instruction and rational amusement”?: Unexpected Features in the Register of British Didactic Novels, 1778–1814

Misset¹

2022

Tackling the Toolkit: Plotting Poetry Through Computational Literary Studies

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“…All participants in the spiritual group reported visual imagery in association with voice-hearing, with rates of visual hallucinations being comparable to the psychosis patient group. This highlights an important consideration relating to understanding the experiences of different voice-hearing groups: the language used to describe voices -often shaped by clinicians (in the case of psychosis patients) or peers (in the spiritual group) -can have large effects on interpretations by researchers 11,[26][27][28] . In this case, many participants in the spiritual group reported visual images in their 'mind's eye' that they distinguished from typical visual imagery by its spontaneity and/or alien quality, but which was easily distinguished from external visual perception.…”

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Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices

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Woods³

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Voice-hearing in clinical and non-clinical groups has previously been compared using standardized assessments of psychotic experiences. Findings from several studies suggest that non-clinical voice-hearing (NCVH) is distinguished by reduced distress and increased control. However, symptom-rating scales developed for clinical populations may be limited in their ability to elucidate subtle and unique aspects of non-clinical voices. Moreover, such experiences often occur within specific contexts and systems of belief, such as spiritualism. This makes direct comparisons difficult to interpret. Here we present findings from a comparative interdisciplinary study which administered a semi-structured interview to NCVH individuals and psychosis patients. The non-clinical group were specifically recruited from spiritualist communities. The findings were consistent with previous results regarding distress and control, but also documented multiple modalities that were often integrated into a single entity, high levels of associated visual imagery, and subtle differences in the location of voices relating to perceptual boundaries. Most spiritual voice-hearers reported voices before encountering spiritualism, suggesting that their onset was not solely due to deliberate practice. Future research should aim to understand how spiritual voice-hearers cultivate and control voice-hearing after its onset, which may inform interventions for people with distressing voices.

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“…43 As Collins et al (under review) discuss, in linguistic terms, there are potentially multiple continua at play capturing different aspects of the psychosis experience. 44 The degrees of personification and agency of voices can be seen as one such aspect.…”

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Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology

2020

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In this paper, we use concepts and insights from the literary linguistic study of story-world characters to shed new light on the nature of voices as social agents in the context of lived experience accounts of voice-hearing. We demonstrate a considerable overlap between approaches to voices as social agents in clinical psychology and the perception of characters in the linguistic study of fiction, but argue that the literary linguistic approach facilitates a much more nuanced account of the different degrees of person-ness voices might be perceived to possess. We propose a scalar Characterisation Model of Voices and demonstrate its explanatory potential by comparing two lived experience descriptions of voices in interviews with voice-hearers in a psychosis intervention. The new insights into the phenomenology of voice-hearing achieved by applying the model are relevant to the understanding of voice-hearing as well as to therapeutic interventions.

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A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices

Abstract: Alderson-Day (2020) A linguistic approach to the psychosis continuum: (dis)similarities and (dis)continuities in how clinical and non-clinical voice-hearers talk about their voices,

Cited by 15 publications

References 44 publications

“Replete with instruction and rational amusement”?: Unexpected Features in the Register of British Didactic Novels, 1778–1814

“Replete with instruction and rational amusement”?: Unexpected Features in the Register of British Didactic Novels, 1778–1814

Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices

Person-ness of voices in lived experience accounts of psychosis: combining literary linguistics and clinical psychology

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