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The researcher employs Thought and Language Index TLI from Liddle 2002:329. TLI comprises 8 symptoms, such as poverty of speech, weakening of
goal, peculiar word, peculiar sentence, peculiar logic non-logical reasoning, perseveration, and distractibility. In fact, the speech abnormalities in
schizophrenia are portrayed well in the movie The Canvas. This movie is about a woman who suffer from schizophrenia. For this reason, this movie is chosen as
the object of this research. Besides, the behaviours of the sufferer in this research are also observed.
According to Bearden et al. 2000: 398, there are some behaviours experienced by the person with schizophrenia. They are thumb sucking, nail biting,
meaningless hand motion, meaningless laughter, excessive crying, and other deviant behaviours. Those behaviours occur as the influence of his or her feeling
of anger, mood, and fear.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD
A. Type of Research
This research used psycholinguistics as an approach which is concerned on the relationship between language and mind. As stated by Warren 2013: 20,
psycholinguistics is the study of mental processes including the production, comprehension, and storage of spoken and written language. The mental
processes shows that the language is used to convey information and what people think in their minds which are the prominent of thinking and production of
utterances. Sometimes, people do not always have a good condition of mind. They may have problems in their mind, so there is a high possibility that those people
suffer from mental illness as the result of the dysfunction of mind. In fact, this approach requires a discussion of the research problems dealing with the mental
ilness and language of the schizophrenic. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. According to
Berg 2001:3, a qualitative research refers to meanings, concepts, definitions, characteristics, and descriptions of things. This statement is also supported by
McMilan in Wiersma and Jurs, 2009:13 who states that a qualitative research occurs in natural situations. It means that there will be no manipulation of the
data. Thus, this method needs more explanation focusing on the descriptions of the phenomena which occurs naturally that may mantain an openness about what
will be observed and collected. In this case, the qualitative method is used to
