Analyse des interactions langagières de quelques enfants autists de Yaoundé

Abstract

This research work tackles the theme of Aquarius. It focuses more particularly of the vagaries of communication and social interactions. For this reason, language practices among young autistic children are at all their disability. The problem of our topic is the langagious practices of children with autism in varied contexts. This problem has guided our concerns through the following questions: what are the langagious practices of people with autism? How do these behave during interactions? In the end how do their gaps appear in various branches of linguistics? In order to address these problematic axes, we have advanced some assumptions that we will confirm or infirm through this study. Thus, we assume that in autistic children communication is done through verbal and/or non-verbal language; language disturbances may appear both at the level of understanding and/or at the level of verbal expression (the word) of the other party, and finally autism children present gaps on various branches of linguistics related to derangement of language development. However, this research proposes through a sociolinguistic approach made between specialized educators and/or neurotypical people with autistic children in order to present interactions in the form of conversations to show their language practices. Language proficiency is a fundamental part of the development of every child’s personality, achievement, and integration into society. However, the Sociolinguistic and analysis of the data gathered shows how the langagious practices of the latter are full of variety of complexities within a conversation. These observations, therefore, put the ability of these children to test it into verbal interactions situations in diverse environments. So to better understand the methods and mechanisms of language that autistic children are striving harder or less to use, it is necessary to consider interactions in the branches of linguistics.