Introduction

[Victor Kuperman]

Shalom Ron,

thank you for your invitation to talk. I currently
reside in Foster City, California and will visit
Israel irregularly. Nevertheless, I'd be glad to be in
contact with you. You might want to meet my friend and
colleague Dr. Josef Zislin (Kfar Shaul, Jerusalem) for
a vis-a-vis talk. His email is jzislin at yahoo.com.

To answer your question: we have not yet dealt with
the message structure of psychotic speech, even though
it would be extremely interesting to do so. My
intuition is that within an utterance psychotic
patients reveal the very same functional patterns as
'normals' do. One of exceptions, though, is the 'word
salad', where the information structure is totally
disrupted. I guess in terms of the message structure
the psychotic speech diverges from normal at the
intersentential or rather inter-utterance level.
Still, don't take my words for granted, I've never
checked it.


Again, thank you for your interest and keep in touch.

Best regards,
Victor



--- Ron Kuzar <kuzar at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL> wrote:
> Shalom Victor,
> I read your introduction to the discourse list with
> interest. I wonder if you
> include also message structure (information
> structure, theme-rheme, topic-focus)
> issue in your analysis. My dissertation was "Message
> Structure of the Sentence in
> Israeli Hebrew". That was 12 years ago. Recently I
> have been re-interested in
> these issues. I'll be back in Israel on Tuesday,
> perhaps we can talk about this.
> Give me a call.
> Roni
> --------------------------
> Dr. Ron Kuzar
> Dept. of English
> University of Haifa
> http://research.haifa.ac.il/~kuzar
> Home phone: (02) 641-4780
> --------------------------


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