This article examines more ethical descriptions of language production in schizophrenia as well as clinical descriptions of language output and the phenomenon of positive thought disorder. It also provides a summary of the data supporting the widely accepted notion that language impairment in schizophrenia results from abnormalities in either working memory and executive function or abnormalities in semantic memory. The companion article focuses on the online psycholinguistic approaches used to study language in schizophrenia and discusses how knowing schizophrenia may help us understand how regular language processing works.
