The Discursive Construction of Autism: Contingent Meanings of Autism and Therapeutic Talk

This dissertation was a discourse analysis study, drawing upon discursive psychology, poststructural understandings of discourse, conversation analysis, and a social relational model of disability. The purpose of this study was to explore how autism was performed as an interactional event among chi...

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Main Author: Lester, Jessica Nina
Format: Others
Published: Trace: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange 2011
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Online Access:http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/990