Department of English Language and Literature

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    Deviation from grice maxims in the conversation of schisophernic patients: A qualitative study
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2017) Majeed, Rabia
    Linguistics and psychology both are concerned with locating and discovering the link between language and psychological procedures by which people of a community acquire and use language during social interaction. This research endeavors to discover the deviation of the individuals with schizophrenia in conversation from the Grice maxims so that early detection could be feasible via the analysis of the language patterns. It offers a discernmentto language disorder in schizophrenic sufferers including, troubles in phonology, syntax, semantics, and morphology and so on. Patients affected by schizophrenia have also been located to be deviated of their pragmatic cooperation of communication as quality, quantity, relation and manner while having casual interaction with other inside the comprehension of figurative language (e.g., metaphors, ironies, proverbs). The study further located the existing patterns in the talk of the sufferes as unminfulness of situational context, irrelevant responding, distorted intonation and absence of sequencing in the personal ideas of the sufferes that make their talk abnormal for the common persons.The idea disorder is taken into consideration to be one of the maximum widespread reasons behind of their verbal exchange impairments. Along with this notion, other theories from Psycholinguistics and Discourse analysis are used to discover and explain the impairments. This discipline of research is naturally bordering each psychology and linguistics, however has until now been overlooked through most linguists. This paper offers an overviewof schizophrenia and language as an interdisciplinary field of studies, as a manner of integrating pragmatic notion with psychological approach .For the empirical data, interviews had been conducted. This research has been used a qualitative evaluation of records addressing change within the production of language as measured through verbal fluency testing, in addition to analysis of spontaneous speech of the individuals. However, all the psychiatrists, speech therapists and the own family members of the patients agreed that the sufferers with schizophrenia have several varieties of language impairments. They mentioned approximately the various stylesof the deviation and the way the ones may be detected. This paper concluded with some of the approaches in which the study of schizophrenia may also provide new insights into the cognitive and neural structure of the language system and by improving the pragmatic abilities of the sufferers so that the rehabilitation process can be improved.