An Applied Pragmatic Perspective of Autism in The Medical Interactions in TV Series: ‘The Good Doctor'
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https://doi.org/10.36317/kaj/2023/v1.i57.11903Keywords:
Clinical, pragmatics, Pragmatic, impairment, AutismAbstract
Sperber & Wilson (2005:468) see Pragmatics as is " the study of how contextual factors interact with linguistic meaning in the interpretation of utterances". Doctors often recognize patterns in people’s speech from their utterances. These patterns may affect the medical judgements. In general, this paper presents models for describing clinical contexts and illustrates them with analysis of medical interactions associated with developmental autism disorders.
This paper attempts to examine Applied linguistic impairment through (The selected situations in the Season 1, Episode 2) of medical conversations in the TV series: "The Good Doctor" in which the main character is 'Dr. Murphy' who is an autistic resident doctor. The pragmatic impairment is spread in the world and there is difficult to identify exact nature of autism. This paper also endeavors to investigate the autism through its definition and scope to achieve the needs of the interactions between the interlocutors. Generally, interlocutor with autism is possibly to exhibit pragmatic troubles along with her/his interactions, but these troubles differ extremely from one person to another. (Cummings,2017:59).
This paper also attempts to shed light the applied pragmatic strategies and devices that can be exploited in three stages: launching, maintaining, and terminating of clinical conversations in the case of autism.
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