Linguistic Analysis of Affective Speech in Psychotherapy: A case grammar approach
Timothy Anderson, Edward Bein, Brian Pinnell, Hans H. Strupp · Psychotherapy Research · 1999
The Computer Assisted Language Analysis System (CALAS) was used to examine the relationship of various linguistic measures to outcome measures in high and low verbalized affect segments of 32 patients in psychotherapy. Results indicated that in the high affect segments, therapists with poor outcome cases used more “cognitive” verbs than therapists with good outcome cases. Therapists in general differed from patients by speaking with a more differentiated pattern of speech in both the high and low affect segments. Specifically, therapists used relatively more stative verbs in high affect segments and more action verbs in low affect segments than patients. Therapists also included more information in their speech, but spoke more efficiently (i.e., fewer embedded clauses) than patients. It is suggested that lexical measures may supplement existing measures in the study of psychotherapy dialogue. Das computergestutzte Sprachanalysesysesystem (CALAS) wurde eingesetzt, um die Beziehung verschiedener linguistisc...