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N EU AND A UT UTISTIC S EM EMIOSIS : EURODIVER ERSITY AN A F F OC ON R EP OCUS ON EPET ETITION La Laura Sterponi Un University of of Califor ornia, Berkeley A IM OF P RES IM OF RESEN ENTATION To To affirm au autisitc ne neur


  1. N EU AND A UT UTISTIC S EM EMIOSIS : EURODIVER ERSITY AN A F F OC ON R EP OCUS ON EPET ETITION La Laura Sterponi Un University of of Califor ornia, Berkeley

  2. A IM OF P RES IM OF RESEN ENTATION • To To affirm au autisitc ne neur urodiversity, by unp unpacking ng one ne of the he mo most salient features of autism. m. DS DSM-5

  3. R EP ETITIVE P AT OF B EH EPET ATTERNS OF EHAVIOR • In In mainst stream autism sm rese search: - automatic responses - hindrance to, or disruptive of social interaction - no or minimal communicative function • Th The neurodiversity perspective: - semiotic phenomena - meaningful sensory explorations - forms of self expression

  4. A IM OF P RES IM OF RESEN ENTATION • To To affirm au autisitc ne neur urodiversity, by unp unpacking ng one ne of the he mo most salient features of autism. m. • To To deconstruct further repetitive repetitive verbal behavior in in autis ism (Local & Wootton, 1995; Wootton, 1999; Sterponi & Shankey, 2014) . • To To articulate further the notion of autistic se semiosi sis (Nolan & McBride, 2015) .

  5. C OR ORPUS & M M ET ETHOD • Vi Videorecord rdings of of spon pontaneou ous interaction ons of of you oung (3 (3-6 6 years old) children with autism. • Th The vi videoreco corded in interactio ions were transcrib ibed and anal an alyzed ed ac according to Discourse e Anal alysis conven entions. • Fo Four video segments are examined.

  6. T HE HE E XT XTRACTS E XT XTRACT 1 1 AND ND 2 2 (Florina, 6-year-old) - Delayed echolalia - Even the most functionally opaque and seemingly autonomic form of echolalia is highly synchronized with surrounding talk - Echoes are marked metacommunicatively E XT XTRACT 3 3 (Matt, 4;6-year-old) - Formulaic language strip - Rather than being monological strings uttered all at once by the autistic child, they are developed conjointly.

  7. T HE HE E XT XTRACTS E XT XTRACT 4 4 (Benjamin, 6-year-old) - Repetitive speech - Repetition affords linguistic structures of engagement (DuBois, 2014) - Repetition reveals and enacts the experiential potential of language as such (Ochs, 2012)

  8. E XT XTRACT 1

  9. E XT XTRACT 2

  10. E XT XTRACT 3

  11. E XT XTRACT 4

  12. C ON ONCLUSION ONS • A A close analysis of the composition of autistic utterances an and thei eir position in seq equen ential al contex ext has as brought to light th the complexity ty and inte teracti tional significance of auti tisti tic re repetitive speech. • Re Repetitive verbal behavior as a form of autistic se semiosi sis co communica cates and me metacommu mmunicates, , thereby providing sc scope for in intersubje jectiv ivit ity an and inter erconnec ected ednes ess.

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