artículo
Language and therapeutic change: A speech acts analysis
Fecha
2008Registro en:
10.1080/10503300701576360
1050-3307
MEDLINE:18815987
WOS:000256405300012
Autor
Reyes, Lucia
Aristegui, Roberto
Krause, Mariane
Strasser, Katherine
Tomicic, Alemka
Valdes, Nelson
Altimir, Carolina
Ramirez, Ivonne
De La Parra, Guillermo
Dagnino, Paula
Echavarri, Orietta
Vilches, Oriana
Ben Dov, Perla
Institución
Resumen
Drawing on the speech acts theory, a linguistic pattern was identified that could be expected to be associated to therapeutic change, characterized by being uttered in the first person singular and present indicative, and by being self-referential in its propositional content. The frequency of the pattern was examined among verbalizations defined as change moments in three therapies with different theoretical orientation. Results show that the majority of change moments have the specified pattern, and that this pattern is significantly more frequent in change moments than in random non-change-related verbalizations, and so, it does not pertain to therapeutic conversation in general. Implications are discussed concerning the possibility of using the linguistic pattern as an additional and complementary criterion in the identification of moments of change in the therapeutic process.