The Use of Speech Act as Communication Strategy of Children with Autism

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10.2991/assehr.k.200325.105How to use a DOI?

Keywords

autism, pragmatic, speech acts

Abstract

Autism is considered as the cause of linguistics impairment. It was believed to be responsible for a pragmatic deficit for the person with autism. This study aims to describe how children with autism use speech act as the strategy of their communication in the classroom. The data was taken from one special needs school (SLBN) in Surakarta. The study involved five students at the elementary level and two students at a junior high level. The data were taken from the recording of the classroom activity to get the lingual set used for further analysis. The data were then transcribed and analyzed using a matching technique. Means-end analysis from the speakers’ point of view was employed to find out what speech act strategy the speakers used, in this case, children with autism, to reach their goal in the utterance. The results surprisingly showed that most of the children with autism were using a directive speech act. The other type of speech acts employed by the children was assertive. In directive utterance uttered by the children with autism, it was predominantly used to ask or request. However, this strategy is helpful for them to ask for reassurance from the speaking partner, teacher, to get clear comprehension.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dian Wahyunianto
AU  - Djatmika
AU  - Dwi Purnanto
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/31
TI  - The Use of Speech Act as Communication Strategy of Children with Autism
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 324
EP  - 328
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200325.105
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200325.105
ID  - Wahyunianto2020
ER  -