Structural patterns in conversations with a woman who has autism
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- 作者：Dobbinson ; Sushie ; Perkins ; Michael R. ; Boucher ; Jill
- 关键词：Autism ; Conversation ; Discourse analysis ; Repetitiveness
- 刊名：Journal of Communication Disorders
- 出版年：1998
- 出版时间：March 4, 1998
- 年：1998
- 卷：31
- 期：2
- 页码：113-134
- 全文大小：1.09 M
文摘
The experience of conversing with a person who has autism is often described as unsatisfactory. This article offers some suggestions as to why that might be. Conversation between an adult diagnosed as autistic and a researcher was transcribed and analyzed using the methodology of Conversation Analysis. The analysis highlights differences in conversational style between the two participants based on features such as topic movement, topic maintenance, repairs, interference from earlier structures and common collocations, overlaps, latching, and pauses. It is suggested that many of the features of the subject’s talk which result in an overly repetitive style may be cognitively motivated.