Rethinking Language in Autism

Autor/inn/en	Sterponi, Laura; de Kirby, Kenton; Shankey, Jennifer
Titel	Rethinking Language in Autism
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 19 (2015) 5, S.517-526 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361314537125
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Language; Speech; Anthropological Linguistics; Language Research; Social Action; Interaction; Experience + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Languages; Sprache; Speaking; Sprechen; Sprachforschung; Soziales Handeln; Interaktion; Erfahrung
Abstract	In this article, we invite a rethinking of traditional perspectives of language in autism. We advocate a theoretical reappraisal that offers a corrective to the dominant and largely tacitly held view that language, in its essence, is a referential system and a reflection of the individual's cognition. Drawing on scholarship in Conversation Analysis and linguistic anthropology, we present a multidimensional view of language, showing how it also functions as interactional accomplishment, social action, and mode of experience. From such a multidimensional perspective, we revisit data presented by other researchers that include instances of prototypical features of autistic speech, giving them a somewhat different--at times complementary, at times alternative--interpretation. In doing so, we demonstrate that there is much at stake in the view of language that we as researchers bring to our analysis of autistic speech. Ultimately, we argue that adopting a multidimensional view of language has wide ranging implications, deepening our understanding of autism's core features and developmental trajectory. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01