Introduction

[Paulo Gago]

Hi Victor,
I'm Paulo, doctoral student frrom Catholic University from, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. My ex M.A. advisor is specialist on the discourse of psychotic
patients and has a project on coherence in psychotic discourse. She works
with analysis of frames , footings (Goffman) and coherence and topic. You
will find that all in: Ribeiro, Branca Telles.  "Coherence in Psychotic
Discourse" . OUP, 1994. She studied with Deborah Tannen and works currently
with Eliot Mishler at Harvard.
Best and good luck
Paulo
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Data: Quarta-feira, 18 de Julho de 2001 00:16
Assunto: Introduction


>Dear DISCOURS subscribers,
>as requested by the list policy, what follows is the
>brief self-introduction.
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>I am Victor Kuperman, the MA student at the Graduate
>School of Library and Information Science, the Hebrew
>University, Jerusalem, Israel. My BA from the Hebrew
>University (1997) is in Linguistics and English. One
>of the research projects I am currently involved in
>concerns discourse structure of narratives produced by
>psychotic patients. Research is carried out in the
>Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center, Jerusalem and heavily
>relies on the first-hand interviews and medical files.
>The medical perspective of the project is to pinpoint
>correlations between the patient's condition and
>his/her narrative, and potentially come up with
>alternative narrative-driven classification of
>psychotic states. The linguistic (or
>humanities-oriented) side of the project is concerned
>with defining structural (syntactic) and semantic
>features of psychotic narratives, at this stage.
>Another project deals with bilingual psychotic
>patients and the discrepancies between expressing
>psychotic reality in L1 and L2. Several papers that
>resulted from these pieces of researchare available
>upon request.
>
>Victor Kuperman
>
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