Table 1. Examples of Deviant Use of Language, or Anomalous Semantics.
| Kraepelin (Kraepelin, 1896/1919) |
| “The brain-navel of the merchants’ association” a |
| “One cannot take the direction from the reflection” a |
| “Suffering hunger is stronger than in all deaf-mutes.” a |
| “I have gone through much for the German language.” a |
| “I have voluntary disease of the eyes.” b |
| “I am national-liberal chased away.” b |
| “I have a suspended appetite.” c |
| “Life is a dessert-spoon.” d |
| “We are already standing in the spiral under a hammer.” d |
| “Death will be awakened by the golden dagger.” d |
| “The consecrated discourse cannot be over split in any movement.” d |
| “I don’t know what I am to do here, it must be the aim, that means to steal with the gentleman.” e |
| The doctor has collected my four senses.” f |
| Bleuler (Bleuler, 1911/1950) |
| “The mountains which are outlined in the swellings of the oxygen are beautiful.” g |
| “The rosary ‘was a prayer multiplier and this in turn is a prayer for multiplying and as such is nothing else but a prayer-mill, and is therefore a mill-prayer machine which is again a prayer-machine mill.’” g |
| “I have never been in Hamburg, Lubeck or Berne; I have never seen Professor Hilty; I have never been to the University of Basel; I have never seen Luther, not ever had the lütter (a vulgar expression for diarrhea). But I have already seen all the members of the legislature...” I |
| Wynne & Singer (Wynne & Singer, 1965) (p. 194) |
| “some sort of species for a special occasion” |
| “a blended color species” |
| “Imagination is the worst nation in the world.” |
| Scale for the Assessment of Thought, Language, and Communication (N. Andreasen, 1979a) (p. 1320) |
| “handshoes” [referring to gloves] |
| “time vessel” [referring to a watch] |
| Thought Disorder Index (Johnston & Holzman, 1979; Solovay et al., 1986) (includes only peculiar verbalizations, identified by italic font) |
| “They are an equal species.” [referring to a mirror image] |
| “It had the fishing smell.” |
| “Rectangularly speaking” |
| “It has a nasal look to it.” |
| “The mineral of its substance” |
| “The capitalization of native Americans” |
| “It was up to place with the surroundings.” |
| “It looks like an x axis in origin.” |
| “It is darker here and interacts the eye.” |
| “A heartwhelmed blessing” |
| “This is a duplicate side leaf. It’s geometrical.” |
| “Because of the dimensions of vision, it looks like it is ...” |
a
p. 72
b
p. 71
c
p. 70-71
d
p.56
e
pp. 56-57
f
p. 67
g
p. 19
h
p. 28
I
p. 30