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'Here's the weavery looming up': Verbal humour in a woman with high-functioning autism
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UNSPECIFIED (2001) 'Here's the weavery looming up': Verbal humour in a woman with high-functioning autism. AUTISM, 5 (2). pp. 111-125. ISSN 1362-3613.
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Abstract
A case study of Grace, a 29-year-old woman with high-functioning autism, is presented. Grace is unusual for a person with autism in that she produces a great deal of humorous and creative word play. She is also unusual in that she writes and then audio-records letters' to her family, and produces copious cartoon-like drawings which she annotates, with the result that multiple examples of her humour are available in permanent form. We present examples of Graces use of puns, jokes, neologisms, portmanteau words, irreverent humour, irony, sarcasm and word play based on her obsessional interests. The examples are used to illustrate the forms and content of Grace's humour, and are discussed in relation to current theories of autism and of normal humour.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | AUTISM | ||||
Publisher: | SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD | ||||
ISSN: | 1362-3613 | ||||
Official Date: | June 2001 | ||||
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Volume: | 5 | ||||
Number: | 2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 15 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 111-125 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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