A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of socio-cultural values in Chinese and English social stories for autistic individuals

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI:10.1016/j.laheal.2024.08.002

Jesse W.C. Yip

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Social Stories are utilised to educate autistic individuals about appropriate social behaviours and politeness in social contexts. Based on the Theory of Mind (ToM), Social Stories are associated with neurotypicality which suggests human brains function in a similar way. Employing corpus-assisted discourse analysis, the study examines and compares the cultural differences between Chinese Social Stories (CSS) and English Social Stories (ESS) through analysing keywords, frequency of lexical items and collocation of the first-person pronoun. The results reveal that CSS emphasise the Confucian values of politeness, filial piety and hierarchical human relationship, while ESS recognise individual preferences, emotions and the value of fairness. The results enrich the knowledge of the discoursal and rhetorical features of Social Stories in different languages and provide theoretical implications for understanding the concepts of normality, politeness and neurotypicality. This article concludes by arguing that society should adopt the neurodiversity approach towards autistic individuals.

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针对自闭症患者的中英文社会故事中的社会文化价值观的语料库辅助话语分析

社交故事用于教育自闭症患者在社交场合中的适当社交行为和礼貌。基于心智理论（ToM），社交故事与神经典型性相关，这表明人类大脑以类似的方式运作。本研究采用语料库辅助话语分析，通过分析关键词、词条频率和第一人称代词的搭配，研究并比较了中文社交故事（CSS）和英文社交故事（ESS）之间的文化差异。结果显示，汉语社会故事强调礼貌、孝道和等级人际关系等儒家价值观，而英语社会故事则认可个人偏好、情感和公平价值观。研究结果丰富了人们对不同语言中社会故事的话语和修辞特点的认识，并为理解规范性、礼貌性和神经典型性等概念提供了理论依据。本文最后认为，社会应采用神经多样性方法来对待自闭症患者。

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