Affiliation, topicality, and Asperger’s

Objective: In storytelling environments, recipients’ questions have mainly been described as non-affiliative. This article examines how the topicality of story-responsive relates to displays affiliation. Furthermore, we investigate whether there are differences between practices neurotypical participants (NT) and diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (AS) in this regard. While aiming uncover general, also seek shed light on specific interactional features associated AS. Method: Our method is qualitative conversation analysis. Drawing a dataset Finnish quasi-natural conversations, compare consequences asked by NT- AS-participants. Results: We show NT-participants our data use set manage topical relevance their questions, while AS-participants’ production otherwise very similar differs precisely reference these practices. Discussion: argue that different ways which AS-participants treat influence relative affiliative import subtle, but yet significant ways. Conclusions: The can only really be seen retrospect, since, subsequent turns, questioner cast action having prepared ground for