INTERSEMIOTIC INTERPRETATION BASED ON EXISTENTIAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH BY R.D. LAING
The article is focused on the possibility of intersemiotic interpretation in psychology (psychiatry) and semiotics. Speech expressions by individuals with diagnosed schizophrenia are supposed to be analyzed by means of methods of intersemiotic interpretation. Individuals with schizophrenia express their thoughts in unusual linguistic and semiotic ways, therefore, the researcher's aim is to distinguish between those semiotic transformations that schizophrenia might cause. In doing so, the existential-phenomenological approach by R.D. Laing is implemented. The patients with diagnosed schizophrenia is regarded as an individual who is able to express their thoughts and apprehensions but in a transformed, unconventional way. The objectives of a researcher also include explanation of the use of psychological and semiotic approaches both.