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Language is one of the characteristics of human. Problem with language is a crucial problem. This analysis is going to try to find out the language disorder
due to thought disorder in schizophrenia paranoid patient. Thought disorder refers to disorganized thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech of the patient. And
accordance with the focus of this analysis about schizophrenia patient speech, there are three problems that are going to be analyzed in this analysis:
1. What are the types of schizophrenic speech found in schizophrenia
paranoid patients? 2.
Which dominant type of schizophrenic speech is found in schizophrenia paranoid patients?
3. Which patient has the most severe language disorder?
1.3 Significance of the Study
The significance of this study is to expand knowledge of the readers about language disorder due to thought disorder in schizophrenia paranoid patients,
especially for those who are interested in this subject. Beside that, the result of this analysis will be useful for medical workers in classifying schizophrenia
patients as well as to common people to recognize signs and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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1.4 Objective of the Study
This analysis is going to try to find out the types of language disorder due to thought disorder found in schizophrenia paranoid patients. Based on the
problem of the study above, the objective of this analysis are: 1.
To find out the types of schizophrenic speech found in schizophrenia paranoid patients.
2. To find out the most dominant type of schizophrenia speech found in
schizophrenia paranoid patients. 3.
To find out which patient has most severe language disorder.
1.5 Scope of the Study
It is important to make a scope in this study in order to get a clear explanation about the topic. This analysis of language disorder in schizophrenia
patients limited only on language disorder due to disorder of thought or also known as “thought disorder” which are found among the five selected
schizophrenia paranoid patients in District Hospital of Simeulue. This analysis uses Andreasen’s theory to find the types of language
disorder found in schizophrenia paranoid patients’ speech. Andreason 1979 distinguished schizophrenic speech or language disorder due to thought disorder
in schizophrenia into 18 types, they are; poverty of speech, poverty of content of speech, pressure of speech, distractible speech, tangentiality, derailment,
incoherence, illogicality, clanging, neologism, word approximations,
