Pragmatic failure, mind style and characterisation in fiction about autism
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Pragmatic failure, mind style and characterisation in fiction about autism
This paper presents an analysis of different types of pragmatic failure in the interactional behaviour of the ‘autistic’ protagonists of three recent novels. Three main types of pragmatic failure occur across all three novels: problems with informativeness and relevance in conversational contributions; problems with face management resulting in unintentional impolite behaviours; and problems wi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0963-9470,1461-7293
DOI: 10.1177/0963947014526312