Construção e representação de realidades no discurso de falantes com esquizofrenia: uma abordagem sistêmico-funcional

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the representation of reality in the discourse of patients diagnosed as schizophrenics. To do this, the theoreticalmethodological approach of Systemic- Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics has been taken on board. The corpus consists of the transcriptions of 12 psychiatric interviews, with 12 schizophrenic patients, that took place in private and public centers of mental health, The general question is: what are the representational patterns of reality suggested by the discourse of the patients? To answer it, I analyze the ideational metafunction (Halliday, 1994), focusing on the processes elected by the schizophrenic speakers to represent the ongoing events of the external and the internal world. So, the research approaches the patients discourse in terms of lexico-grammatical and discourse-semantic patterns. Results show frequent occurrence of negative polarity operators and modalizations. The attribution of negative features to themselves and to entities, places, things and people, the recount of negative events, as well as Instances of the projection of an empowered identity, which can be identifiable as signs of delusion