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Background

Research Interests

Linguistic discourse analysis; clinical linguistics; pragmatics; autism spectrum disorder; social cognition

de Villiers, J., Szatmari, P. and S. Yang. 2014. “Social Communication in Asperger’s Syndrome” In V.B. Patel, V.R. Preedy and C.R. Martin, eds. The Comprehensive Guide to Autism. Springer Reference.
de Villiers, J., B. Myers and R. Stainton. (2014). “Revisiting Pragmatic Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder”. Pragmatics and Cognition 21(2), 253-269. http://works.bepress.com/robertstainton/128
de Villiers, J. (2010). “Autism and language.” In P. Hogan, ed. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge, University Press.
de Villiers, J. (2009). “Autism Spectrum Disorders.” In L. Cummings, ed. The Pragmatics Encyclopedia, Routledge.
de Villiers, J., R. Stainton, and P. Szatmari. “Pragmatic Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study in Philosophy and the Empirical” Philosophy and the Empirical. Ed. P.A. French and H.K. Wettstein. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 292-317. http://works.bepress.com/robertstainton/93
de Villiers, Jessica , Jonathan Fine, Gary Ginsberg, Liezanne Vaccarella and Peter Szatmari. (2007). “Brief Report: A Scale for Rating Conversational Impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37(7): 1375-80.

When Language Breaks Down: Analyzing Discourse in Clinical Contexts. (2010). Cambridge University Press, with Elissa Asp (Reviewed in Language here)
Michael Gregory’s Proposals for a Communication Lingusitics. (2010). Toronto: GREF, ed. with Robert Stainton
Communication in Linguistics. (2001). Toronto: GREF, ed. with Robert Stainton

Offord Centre for Child Studies: http://www.offordcentre.com

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA): http://circa.educ.ubc.ca

Systemic-Functional linguistics Information Site: http://www.isfla.org/Systemics/index.html

Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States: http://lacus.weebly.com