Psycholinguistic research on pragmatics in the neurotypical population has increasingly framed pragmatic competence and related cognitive skills in terms of individual differences, co-constructed discourse, and meaning negotiation. However, research on pragmatics in the Autism Spectrum has risen from a wide and biased view of autistic communication as fundamentally compromised and autistic pragmatic abilities as impaired. Mostly due to the impactful theory of a deficit in Theory of Mind, early research on autistic communication presumed a unitary pragmatic impairment, only to find that several pragmatic abilities seem to be “preserved.” However, the interpretation of these findings usually takes an ableist turn, as most studies subsequently suggest that surface-level performance should not be interpreted as competence, but rather as a result of “compensatory” strategies. The raising number of contributions from autistic academics and participatory research enriched the field with new perspectives focusing on differences rather than impairments and drawing hypotheses on communication difficulties between neurotypes rather than within a specific neurotype. However, such contributions are hardly ever cited in the most prominent works. In conclusion, the field would benefit from a higher level of citation of autistic-led research and from an epistemological perspective shift within the mostly neurotypical academic community.

对神经典型人群语用学的心理语言学研究越来越多地根据个体差异、共建话语和意义协商来构建语用能力和相关认知技能。然而，对自闭症谱系中语用学的研究已经从一种广泛而有偏见的观点出发，即自闭症交流从根本上受到损害，自闭症语用能力受损。主要是由于心理理论中有影响力的缺陷理论，对自闭症交流的早期研究假定了一种单一的语用障碍，结果发现似乎“保留了几种语用能力”。然而，对这些发现的解释通常会转向能力论，因为大多数研究随后表明，表面水平的表现不应被解释为能力，而是“补偿”策略的结果。自闭症学者和参与性研究的贡献越来越多，以关注差异而不是损伤的新视角丰富了该领域，并提出了关于神经类型之间而不是特定神经类型之间的沟通困难的假设。然而，这些贡献几乎从未在最著名的著作中被引用过。总之，该领域将受益于更高水平的自闭症主导研究的引用以及大多数神经典型学术界内的认识论观点转变。自闭症学者和参与性研究的贡献越来越多，以关注差异而不是损伤的新视角丰富了该领域，并提出了关于神经类型之间而不是特定神经类型之间的沟通困难的假设。然而，这些贡献几乎从未在最著名的著作中被引用过。总之，该领域将受益于更高水平的自闭症主导研究的引用以及大多数神经典型学术界内的认识论观点转变。自闭症学者和参与性研究的贡献越来越多，以关注差异而不是损伤的新视角丰富了该领域，并提出了关于神经类型之间而不是特定神经类型之间的沟通困难的假设。然而，这些贡献几乎从未在最著名的著作中被引用过。总之，该领域将受益于更高水平的自闭症主导研究的引用以及大多数神经典型学术界内的认识论观点转变。