Language socialization and neurodiversity
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2026
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Abstract This chapter brings the field of language socialization into dialogue with neurodiversity scholarship, arguing that a neurodiversity-affirming perspective offers both theoretical and ethical resources for rethinking socialization, competence, and communicative development. Building on the critical turn in language socialization research, which has foregrounded power, ideology, and inequality, the chapter situates neurodiversity as a framework that challenges pathologizing models of neurological difference and normative assumptions about language use. After tracing the origins of neurodiversity as an autistic self-advocacy movement and its emergence as a scholarly paradigm, the chapter aligns its core insights with recent critiques in linguistic anthropology that denaturalize notions of the novice and undo dominant constructions of communicative competence. The chapter reviews influential linguistic anthropological and language socialization studies of autistic communication, extending their interpretations through engagement with contemporary neurodiversity scholarship and autistic-authored work. In doing so, it highlights how autistic language practices have been systematically misrecognized through ableist and neurotypical listening practices. Drawing on original ethnographic and discourse-analytic research, the chapter provides an empirical illustration of how a neurodiversity-affirming lens reveals the interactional sensitivity, strategic deployment, and metacommunicative functions of formulaic speech in an autistic child’s everyday interactions. Overall, the chapter argues that integrating neurodiversity into language socialization research compels a reconceptualization of communicative competence, developmental trajectories, and socialization itself.
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| Authors | Laura Sterponi |
| Journal | Oxford University Press eBooks |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198873174.013.0026
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