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Graduate Student, Linguistics and English Language
About
My research focuses upon a relatively novel approach to language analysis, a psycholinguistic corpus-based method, that investigates the dynamic relationships that exist between various linguistic features in discourses of mystical and psychotic experiences. These linguistic features are assumed to offer some insight into the underlying function of linguistic expressions in mystical and psychotic experiences that can be explained and interpreted by using various linguistic, psychological and psychoanalytic concepts and theories.
A parallel line of research inquiry, that overlaps and interlinks with my PhD research, is the linguistic assessment of everyday and dream narratives. Whereas my early work analyzed the linguistic structure of dream narratives, a more recent interest assumes a computer-assisted approach that seeks to understand the dynamic interaction of linguistic variables and cognitive variables in the linguistic constructions of narratives of everyday and dreams.
Cariola (forthcoming). A case study of primary process language and body boundary imagery in discourses of religious-mystical and psychotic altered states of consciousness. Empirical Text and Cultural Research.
Cariola, L. A. (June, 2012). “Assessing the inter-coder reliability and construct validity of the Body Type Dictionary (BTD)”. Postgraduate Conference – Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Middlesex University, London, UK.
Cariola (July, 2012). “A narrative pattern analysis of primary process language and body boundary imagery in discourse of religious-mystical and psychotic altered states of consciousness”. The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brighton, UK.
