A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ABNORMALITY REPRESENTING THE SYMPTOMS AND TYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA EXPERIENCED BY COLE SEAR IN THE SIXTH SENSE MOVIE

Ummah Supianoveri, Qowy (2015) A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SPEECH ABNORMALITY REPRESENTING THE SYMPTOMS AND TYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA EXPERIENCED BY COLE SEAR IN THE SIXTH SENSE MOVIE. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze phenomena of language and mind under psycholinguistic approach. The researcher takes schizophrenia as the main topic. In this research, there are two objectives: (1) to identify kinds of symptoms of schizophrenia represented by a schizophrenic sufferer, Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense movie; and (2) to classify the types of schizophrenia based on the symptoms shown by Cole in The Sixth Sense movie. This research applied the qualitative method with the researcher as the main instrument and data sheet as the secondary instrument. The data of this research were in the form of utterances spoken by Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense movie. The data were collected by watching the film, checking the dialogue in the script, and transferred the relevant data into a table. Theory and researcher triangulations were applied to enhance the trustworthiness of the data. The findings reveal 29 data. Among eight symptoms of schizophrenia, Cole experiences four items. They are poverty of speech (PoS), weakening of goal (WG), peculiar use of words (PW), and non-logical reasoning or peculiar logic (PL). The first most-often appearing symptom is non-logical reasoning or peculiar logic. It occurs 16 times from the total 29 (55.17%) occurrences. This symptom becomes the dominant symptom. Following non-logical reasoning or peculiar logic, as the second most appearing symptom, there are poverty of speech and weakening of goal. They have the same occurrence; each of them appears 6 times with the percentage of 20.69%. The last rank is the symptoms of peculiar use of words which occurs once or 3.45%. According to the symptoms of schizophrenia, the researcher classifies the types of schizophrenia. Different types of schizophrenia are defined according to the most significant and predominant characteristics which are presented in each person at each point in time. In the movie The Sixth Sense, Cole as a schizophrenic sufferer does not reveal all the types. There are two possible types of schizophrenia shown by Cole, paranoid and disorganized type. However, according to the dominant symptoms, Cole suffers paranoid type.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords: psycholinguistics, schizophrenia, speech abnormality, The Sixth Sense
Subjects: Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2015 00:20
Last Modified: 30 Jan 2019 02:14
URI: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/25295

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