TY - JOUR
T1 - Language and therapeutic change
T2 - A speech acts analysis
AU - Reyes, Lucia
AU - Aristegui, Roberto
AU - Krause, Mariane
AU - Strasser, Katherine
AU - Tomicic, Alemka
AU - Valdés, Nelson
AU - Altimir, Carolina
AU - Ramirez, Ivonne
AU - De La Parra, Guillermo
AU - Dagnino, Paula
AU - Echavarri, Orietta
AU - Vilches, Oriana
AU - Ben-Dov, Perla
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Change moments
KW - Language illocutionary pattern
KW - Process research
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/46949104555
U2 - 10.1080/10503300701576360
DO - 10.1080/10503300701576360
M3 - Article
C2 - 18815987
AN - SCOPUS:46949104555
SN - 1050-3307
VL - 18
SP - 355
EP - 362
JO - Psychotherapy Research
JF - Psychotherapy Research
IS - 3
ER -