How to train your abled linguist: A Crip Linguistics perspective on pragmatic research

This chapter centers and uplifts the languaging of autistic people using a Crip Linguistic framework. Crip Linguistics is a recent theoretical framework that combines disability theories with linguistics. It is the extension of several existing linguistic frameworks, such as embodied sociolinguistics (Bucholtz & Hall, 2016) and critical applied linguistics (Pennycook, 2021). The term Crip in Crip Linguistics comes from the verb cripped or to crip, which means to make non?normative (see McRuer, 2006). Crip Linguistics was defined in depth in Henner and Robinson (2021). To sum, Crip Linguistics is a way for linguistics to analyze disability as a variationist perspective in languaging. It asks linguists to understand that language cannot be disordered, but bodies can be disordered in a way that affects languaging. And often, how people perceive disordered bodies make them think that the language produced by those bodies is disordered (when it’s not).