(In)coherence of Discourse: Formal and Conceptual Issues of Language

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Contents
Discourse Coherence—From Psychology to Linguistics and Back Again
	1 Approaches to Psychopathology
	2 Approaches to Language and the Linguistic Approach to Schizophrenia
	3 Contributions of Pluralism
	4 Presentation of the Volume
	References
Linguistic and Formal Approaches
Linguistic Recursion and Danish Discourse Particles: Language in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
	1 Introduction
	2 Second-Order False Belief Tasks
	3 Recursion
	4 Experimental Setup
	5 RET and Second-Order False Belief Reasoning
	6 JDV Reasoning
	7 The JDV Test
	8 Concluding Discussion
	References
Reasoning in Multiparty Dialogue Involving Patients with Schizophrenia
	1 Introduction
		1.1 Outline
	2 Background
		2.1 Reasoning in Dialogue
		2.2 Social Interaction and Reasoning in Schizophrenia
		2.3 Using Gameboard Semantics to Analyze Reasoning in Dialogue
	3 Material
		3.1 Participants
		3.2 Task
		3.3 Topoi in the Balloon Task
	4 Reasoning with Topoi
		4.1 Incremental Reasoning
		4.2 Ranking of Topoi
	5 Toward a TTR Analysis
	6 Conclusions
	References
Picturing Questions and Answers— A Formal Approach to SLAM
	1 Introduction
	2 Approaching SLAM
	3 Architecture
	4 Formal Setup
		4.1 Frame Semantics
		4.2 Questions
		4.3 Compositional Modeling
	5 Real-Life Settings
		5.1 French Interrogatives
		5.2 Corpus Considerations
		5.3 Context and Accessibility
	6 Related Work
	7 Conclusion
	References
Incoherences in Dialogues and their Formalization Focus on Dialogues with Schizophrenic Individuals
	1 Introduction
	2 A Framework for a Dialogue Theory
		2.1 Ludics in a Nutshell
		2.2 Ludics as a Model of Dialogue
		2.3 How to Use Ludics to Account for Incoherences?
	3 A Rupture in Dialogue, Presumably Due to a Cultural Gap
		3.1 Why Such a Dialogue May be Considered Divergent?
		3.2 How May We Analyze this Divergence?
		3.3 How Such a Formalization May be Useful?
	4 Dialogues with Schizophrenics
		4.1 Logicality and Coherence in Schizophrenic Language
		4.2 Two Examples of Dialogue
	5 Conclusion
	6 Annex
	References
Conceptual Issues
Metaphorical Thinking and Delusions in Psychosis
	1 Introduction
	2 Orthodox Accounts of Delusion
	3 Limits of the Orthodox Accounts
		3.1 Where Does the Florid Content Come From?
		3.2 Are Delusions Really Beliefs?
	4 Figurative Inner Speech and the Misattribution of False Beliefs
		4.1 Figurative Language, Emotions, and Unusual Experiences
		4.2 Figurative Language and Delusions
		4.3 Metaphorical Thinking and Delusion Formation
	5 Explanatory Advantages
		5.1 Bizarre or Outlandish Content of Delusional Claims
		5.2 Double Bookkeeping and Agentive Inertia
	6 Conclusion
	References
The Myth of Irrationality: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Delusions and to the Principle of Charity
	1 Introduction
	2 Charity and Norms of Rationality
		2.1 The Origins of Charity: Quine on Translation
		2.2 Extending Charity to Delusions: Wittgenstein on Rationality
	3 Charity in the Philosophy of Psychiatry
		3.1 Delusion as a Rational Inference: The Doxastic-Empiricist Approach
		3.2 The Phenomenological Approach: Sass on Solipsism
	4 Rethinking Charity
		4.1 The Myth of Irrationality
		4.2 The Myth of Hidden Rationality
		4.3 Hinge-Certainties and Their Doppelgängers
	5 Conclusion
	References
Incoherent Discourse in Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Approach to the Mind
	1 The Philosophical Problem Set by the Two Divergent Medical Approaches
	2 Distinguishing the Concepts of “Voluntary Action” and “Intentional Action” to Describe What Is Specifically Mental in the Disorder
	3 The Anthropological Holism of Mind
	4 A Thought Experiment Illustrating This Idea of Primitive Actions
	5 The Problem of Incoherence of Discourse in the Anthropological Conception of Mind
	6 The Expressive Rationalist Conception of Brandom
	7 The Incoherent Discourse Analysis Within the Framework of Brandom Pragmatism
	8 Brandom’s Analysis: Belief Versus Commitment
	9 Conclusion
	References
Conversations with Madness: Meaning, Context, and Incoherence
	1 Introduction
	2 Charity Principle and Solipsism
	3 The Rationality of Schizophrenic Discourse
	4 Understanding “Interactional Deficiency” (Le “Deficit Interactionnel”—Rebuschi et al. 2013)
	References