RendleShort2015

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RendleShort2015
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key RendleShort2015
Author(s) Johanna Rendle-Short, Ray Wilkinson, Susan Danby
Title Name-calling by a child diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome
Editor(s) Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester
Tag(s) Autism, Child mental health, Children, Medical EMCA, Address Terms
Publisher Palgrave
Year 2015
Language English
City Basingstoke
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Journal
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Pages 350–366
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DOI 10.1057/9781137428318_19
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Institution
School
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Howpublished
Book title The Palgrave Handbook of Child Mental Health: Discourse and Conversation Studies
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Abstract

Rendle-Short, Wilkinson, and Danby show how social interaction is directly relevant to maintaining friendships, mental health and well-being, and supportive peer relations. Using conversation analysis, the chapter focuses on conversational participants’ pursuit of affiliation and intimacy from a language as action perspective. It focuses on the use of derogatory naming practices by a 10-year-old girl diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. The analysis shows how derogatory address terms, part of a wider pattern of behaviour evident in this child’s interaction, result in behaviour that might be thought of as impolite or lacking in restraint. It also illustrates how a single case study can draw attention to the context-specific nature of interaction when working with children with Asperger’s Syndrome. The chapter contributes to our understanding of the difficulty in pinpointing, with precision and with clear evidence, what counts as a ‘social interaction difficulty’ due to the context specific nature of interaction.

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