Autism, Metaphor and Relevance Theory

The pattern of impairments exhibited by some individuals on the autism spectrum appears to challenge the relevance‐theoretic account of metaphor (Carston, 1996, 2002; Sperber and Wilson, 2002; Sperber and Wilson, 2008). A subset of people on the autism spectrum have near‐normal syntactic, phonologic...

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Published inMind & language Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 196 - 216
Main Author WEARING, CATHERINE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2010
Subjects
Autism
Implicature
Irony
Metaphors
Pragmatics
Relevance Theory
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