The systematic characteristics of multimodal resources mobilized by a child with ASD in embodied turn-takings

• Autor(a) principal: Santiago, Douglas Vidal
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/47682
• topic: Análise Multimodal; Transtorno do Espectro do Autismo; Gestalt Multimodal Complexa; Multimodal Analysis; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Complex Multimodal Gestalt

This paper aims to analyze the multimodal resources (speech, gestures, objects and body movements) mobilized by Luiza, pseudonym of a child diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and her family members during the process of joint attention in an everyday interaction in a non-institutional environment. To that end, we focus on approaches that emphasize the multimodal aspects of language, highlighting the fine articulation between verbal and gesture productions mobilized by this individual with ASD as linguistic forms that produce semantic and pragmatic structural complexity that may contribute for the studies on relations between gestures and grammar, in search of a Complex Multimodal (gesture/posture + speech) Gestalt (standard) in the communicative repertoire of this child. The findings of the analysis suggest that, although having some restrictions from the point of view of verbal resources, Luiza mobilizes them in articulated way to non-verbal resources to build and participate in the interactive-communicational situation. Therefore, the multimodal research made it possible to give visibility to a range of linguistic and gestural resources employed by this child.