Pragmatic competence, autistic language use and the basic properties of human language

The unique linguistic profile of autistic people urges linguists to address the divergences in human language, its acquisition and use among major perspectives. Fitting with dual roles language (thought communication), this paper adopts an internal pragmatic competence (IPC) a (similar) for external communication (PCEC) elucidate how discloses between nativism constructionism on (ultimately proper). IPC justifies why resort not mind-reading but self-sufficient mental interactions organism-internal submodules or nearly intact grammatical subsystems when abstractly processing communicative needs, contra constructionists' assumption sole intersubjective use. PCEC, required facilitating authentic use, explains dysfunction modular their outside contexts leads autistics' sociopragmatic impairment double empathy gap. In way, divergences, along possible reconciliation two perspectives, can be expounded.