Sterponi-Kirby2016

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Sterponi-Kirby2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sterponi-Kirby2016
Author(s) Laura Sterponi, Kenton de Kirby
Title A multidimensional reappraisal of language in autism: insights from a discourse analytic study
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Tag(s) EMCA, Autism, Language, Discourse analysis, Conversation Analysis, Echolalia, Pronoun reversal and avoidance, Pragmatic deficit
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Year 2016
Language English
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Journal Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Volume 46
Number 2
Pages 394–405
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DOI 10.1007/s10803-015-2679-z
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Abstract

In this article, we leverage theoretical insights and methodological guidelines of discourse analytic scholarship to re-examine language phenomena typically associated with autism. Through empirical analysis of the verbal behavior of three children with autism, we engage the question of how prototypical features of autistic language—notably pronoun atypicality, pragmatic deficit, and echolalia—might conceal competencies and interactional processes that are largely invisible in mainstream research. Our findings offer a complex picture of children with autism in their use of language to communicate, interact and experience others. Such a picture also deepens our understanding of the interactional underpinnings of autistic children’s speech. Finally, we describe how our findings offer fruitful suggestions for clinical intervention.

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