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second rank is meaningless hand motion. However, this occurrence is quite different from the other type of deviant behaviours. It only appears 5 times with
the percentage of 18.52 . After that, in the third place, there is an excessive crying. It brings only twice with the percentage of 7.41 . The next rank is
meaningless laughter which occurs once with the percentage of 3.70 . Other deviant behaviours are the first most-often appearing phenomenon.
Mary is easily depressed and panic because of her hallucination and delusion. She often appears as an aggressive person who is able to threaten herself and also
people surrounding her. In fact, she likes to show her emotion through her facial expression, eye contact, and voice tone known as affective flattening. Hence,
when she hears mysterious voices which are not real, she uses water as her medium to reduce her hallucination. Besides, she also believes that the voices will
go away when she paints. For this reason, she likes painting even though she only draws the same picture in her canvas, i.e. a beach and a lighthouse. Meanwhile,
meaningless laughter gets a smaller occurrence because this occurrence only appears once. However, thumb sucking and nail biting do not occur in Canvas
movie since those behaviours are mainly present in the early childhood of a schizophrenic. Thus, Mary does not experience them as part of her reality until
she is adult. In her age, she tends to express what she thinks and feels. In this case, there is impossible for her to do thumb sucking and nail biting.
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B. Discussion
This part presents a description which gives more detailed and clearer discussion about the phenomenon of schizophrenia. The discussion provides a
deeper explanation associated with some examples of each phenomenon. Thus, it shows the phenomenon of language abnormalities which are employed in Mary’s
utterances.
1. The phenomenon of schizophrenic speech experienced by Mary in
Canvas movie
The findings show that there are five types of schizophrenic speech abnormalities experienced by Mary in Canvas movie, i.e. perseveration of ideas,
non-logical reasoning peculiar logic, looseness, weakening of goal, and poverty of speech. The percentage of those types is not the same from one type to the
others. In fact, if it is seen from the occurrence, perseveration of ideas gets the highest position. This occurrence is followed by non-logical reasoning peculiar
logic and looseness. Both types have almost the same percentages. On the other hand, weakening of goal and poverty of speech rank in the lowest position. The
further explanations and examples for each phenomenon are presented as follows.
a. Perseveration of ideas
Perseveration of ideas is the most-often appearing phenomenon if it is compared to the other types of speech abnormalities. It occurs 25 times that is out
of the total 54 data of the occurrences.
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Perseveration of ideas happens when a schizophrenic uses the same words, phrases, and sentences repeatedly during her speech. This condition is influenced
by the pressed delusion which makes the sufferer lose her self-control. In this case, Mary always repeats her word many times, in order to convince the others
when she gets delusion. Moreover, this phenomenon not only happens in schizophrenic people but also in normal people. In fact, in normal people,
perseveration of ideas occurs when the conversation between a speaker and a hearer cannot achieve the goal of message. The speaker may ask and tell
something to the hearer, but, in fact, there is no response which is done by the hearer. Thus, the speaker will repeat his or her word to catch the hearer’s attention
and then, the hearer gives right responses. Meanwhile, in schizophrenic people, the repetition of words, phrases, or
sentences happens because of delusions or false beliefs. The sufferers experience a wrong belief, so they will feel worried, anxious, and even nervous. This
situation is also experienced by Mary as a schizophrenic in Canvas movie. When she worries about her son, her speech becomes uncontrollable. However, as a
schizophrenic, she is not aware of this abnormality since she experiences it as her part of reality.
The findings show that Mary employs perseveration of ideas. One example of this abnormality is shown in the following datum:
Mary : Wheres my baby? with her worried face
Wheres my son? Hughh ChrisBy hugging tightly
Hi, Honey, are you ok? Are you ok, Honey? Are you ok? Are you sure?
Chris : Yeah
