汉语孤独症儿童与正常儿童口头叙事语篇对比研究

The Contrastive Study of Oral Narratives in Children with ASD and Typically Developing Children

以口头叙事为交际任务,系统功能语言学的三大元功能为理论基础,对学前孤独症儿童与正常儿童的语篇构建能力进行研究。对比分析发现,相对于正常儿童,孤独症组概念意义的构建能力呈现相对优势,但在解读故事角色内心感受这一维度呈现明显弱势;实现人际意义的话语策略与正常组存在差异,较少使用语义凸显或主观评价策略来维持听者注意力;实现谋篇意义的能力明显受损,几乎不使用因果或时间连接词来维系话语的连贯性。该研究结果对孤独症儿童的诊断和康复训练具有一定的借鉴意义。

This paper,based upon three metafunctions of system-functional linguistics,probes into the oral narrative performances of the autistic children and typically developing children.The contrastive analysis indicates that autistic children are able to express ideational meanings,but they fail to interpret the inner feelings of the story characters.In addition,the discourse strategies adopted by autistic children to achieve interpersonal meaning are different from those of the typically developing children,and few semantic prominence or subjective evaluation strategies are used to maintain listeners’attention.Moreover,autistic children’s ability to achieve textual meaning is significantly impaired,and there are fewer causal or temporal connectives to maintain discourse coherence.The findings can be enlightening for diagnosis and improvement of communication competence for autistic children.