A pragmatic-linguistic approach to autistic communication
This thesis sets out to provide a preliminary descriptive account of some of the linguistic features characteristic of autistic communication, in order that the effect of the disability on interpersonal communication may be more clearly understood. Special reference is made to two young adult autistic people. Further aims are to enhance our understanding of the limitations of autistic discourse, where there appear to be any in comparison with normal discourse, and to provide further support for the current widely held view that autism is largely a developmental disorder. The methodology used is taken from the general area of discourse analysis and pragmatics, and concerns major concepts and constructs - Gricean Implicature, Relevance Theory, and attempts to link these with the idea of 'Theory of Mind' in autism etc. Thus features of interaction such as conversational structure, coherence, phatic communion and repetition are taken into consideration, as well as prosodic and paralinguistic factors such as intonation, proxemics and gesture. Part of this thesis is devoted to an exploration of some aspects of various non-native models of everyday communication, and, it is suggested in this thesis that some of these
Johnson, Sarah
Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
A pragmatic-linguistic approach to autistic communication. This thesis sets out to provide a preliminary descriptive account of some of the linguistic features characteristic of autistic communication, in order that the effect of the disability on interpersonal communication may be more clearly understood. Special reference is made to two young adult autistic people. Further aims are to enhance our understanding of the limitations of autistic discourse, where there appear to be any in comparison with normal discourse, and to provide further support for the current widely held view that autism is largely a developmental disorder. The methodology used is taken from the general area of discourse analysis and pragmatics, and concerns major concepts and constructs - Gricean Implicature, Relevance Theory, and attempts to link these with the idea of 'Theory of Mind' in autism etc. Thus features of interaction such as conversational structure, coherence, phatic communion and repetition are taken into consideration, as well as prosodic and paralinguistic factors such as intonation, proxemics and gesture. Part of this thesis is devoted to an exploration of some aspects of various non-native models of everyday communication, and, it is suggested in this thesis that some of these
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