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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 9/2018

09-04-2018 | Original Paper

Selective Pragmatic Impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Indirect Requests Versus Irony

Auteurs: Gaétane Deliens, Fanny Papastamou, Nicolas Ruytenbeek, Philippine Geelhand, Mikhail Kissine

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 9/2018

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Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is often described as being characterised by a uniform pragmatic impairment. However, recent evidence suggests that some areas of pragmatic functioning are preserved. This study seeks to determine to which extent context-based derivation of non-linguistically encoded meaning is functional in ASD. We compare the performance of 24 adults with ASD, and matched neuro-typical adults in two act-out pragmatic tasks. The first task examines generation of indirect request interpretations, and the second the comprehension of irony. Intact contextual comprehension of indirect requests contrasts with marked difficulties in understanding irony. These results suggest that preserved pragmatics in ASD is limited to egocentric processing of context, which does not rely on assumptions about the speaker’s mental states.
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In order to make the task as non-challenging as possible for ASD participants, our design did not include negative ironic sentences, which would correspond to ‘ironic compliments’. Pexman et al. (2011) found a floor performance on ironic compliments for children with autism (as well as for age- and verbal-matched typically developing children). Such forms of irony are much less canonical (Kreuz 2000), and are very difficult to grasp, be it by adults (Climie and Pexman 2008) or children (Filippova and Astington 2008). This methodological choice should have no impact on potential group differences on ironic items. This is especially so because, using exactly the same design, Deliens et al. (2018) found no evidence that NT participants would rely on the fact that negative statements are always sincere.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Selective Pragmatic Impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Indirect Requests Versus Irony
Auteurs
Gaétane Deliens
Fanny Papastamou
Nicolas Ruytenbeek
Philippine Geelhand
Mikhail Kissine
Publicatiedatum
09-04-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 9/2018
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3561-6

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