Listening to people with seizures: How can linguistic analysis help in the differential diagnosis of seizure disorders?

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-72

  Schwabe, Meike ^a   Reuber, Markus ^a   Schöndienst, Martin ^b   Gülich, Elisabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Linguistic analysis; Metadiscourse; Metaphor; Narrative; Non epileptic seizures; Subjective experience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEIZURE;

COMMUNICATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEIZURES;

EID: 65549156521     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cam.v5i1.59     Document Type: Article

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