Speech Act of a Person with Mental Disorders: A Clinical Pragmatic Analysis

Abstract

This research was to determine the speech acts of speaking dialogue in person with a mental disorder (schizophrenia) in terms of clinical pragmatic perspectives. This study is conducted qualitatively with identification and classification in the form of speech acts of the person with pragmatic disorders. Data were obtained in the interview from a thirty-year-old male who has suffered from a mental illness due to the influence of heavy alcohol and drugs. The selection of the participant is to find out about speech disorder that is reduced at that age level. The results of the speech act from the participant showed the sentences that indicate assertive, directive, expressive, commissive, and, declarative. All speech acts and sentences have a certain meaning and interpretation correlated with mental illness and the language deficit of the person specifically.

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“…Third, communication disorder is a condition in which the speaker fails to convey information due to various factors such as speech pressure, speech content deficiency, distraction, tangentiality, and others. Related to the schizophrenia and language, several previous studies have examined this area such as a study about speech abnormalities in individuals with schizophrenia (Hasanah, 2020; Irfadina, 2021; Dewi et al, 2022) [7], [8], [9]; pragmatic analysis of speech actions in people with schizophrenia Thamrin [10]; and the influenced of schizophasia to the understanding of any certain linguistic problem in text coherence in schizophrenic patients with severe schizophrenia [11]. However, in this study, the data analysis of speech abnormalities was used based on the instrument of the Thought and Language Index by Liddle et al, [5] to examine the types of language abnormalities, and this study employed the Thought, Language, and Communication scale by Andreasen [4] in scrutinizing the conditions of speech abnormality occurrence.…”