Publications

Publication details [#39547]

Ochs, Elinor, Olga Solomon, Tamar Kremer-Sadlik and Karen Gainer Sirota. 2004. Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective. Discourse Studies 6 (2) : 147–183.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropology | autistic language | turn-taking

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper presents a socio-cultural approach to perspective-taking in autism in three social fields: (1) participation in conversational turn-taking and sequences; (2) formulation of situational scenarios; and (3) interpretation of socio-cultural meanings of indexical forms and behavior.