THE WESTERN CONSTRUCTION OF ISLAM AND THE MUSLIM WORLD IN IGNATIUS’ BODY OF LIES

QOWY UMMAH SUPIANOVERI, , Indonesia

Abstract


his  study  aims  to  analyze  phenomena  of  language  and  mind  under  psycholinguistic approach. There are two objectives: to identify kinds of symptoms of schizophrenia and to classify the types of schizophrenia based on the symptoms shown by Cole in The Sixth Sensemovie. The research was conducted by using qualitative method with the researcher as the main instrument and data sheet as the secondary instrument. The results of the research were stated as follows. The findings reveal 29 fixed data. Among eight symptoms of schizophrenia, Cole only experiences four items. They are poverty of speech (PoS), weakening of goal (WG), peculiar use of words (PW),  and non-logical reasoning  or  peculiar  logic  (PL).  According  to  the  symptoms  of  schizophrenia,  the  researcher classifies types of schizophrenia. Different types of schizophrenia are defined according to the most significant and predominant characteristics which presented in each person at each point in time. In the movie The sixth Sense, Cole as schizophrenic sufferer does not reveal all the types. According to the dominant symptoms, Cole suffers paranoid type.

Kata Kunci
Keywords: psycholinguistics, schizophrenia, speech abnormality, The Sixth Sense 

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