In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment
Edited by Mieke Vandenbroucke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt
[Handbook of Pragmatics 27] 2024
► pp. 3–42
Autism
Published online: 31 October 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.27.aut4
https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.27.aut4
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Cognitive and linguistic skills that influence pragmatics in autism
- 2.1Precursors of pragmatic development
- 2.1.1Eye contact
- 2.1.2Joint attention
- 2.1.3Pointing gesture
- 2.2Beyond communicative intentions: On other factors that impact pragmatics
- 2.1Precursors of pragmatic development
- 3.Non-literal language
- 3.1Implicatures and indirect speech
- 3.2Figurative language
- 3.3Summary and future lines of research
- 4.Monologic and dialogic discourse
- 4.1Narratives
- 4.2Conversation
- 4.3Summary and future lines of research
- 5.Conclusions
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