O falante entre cenas: descaminhos da comunicação na deficiência mental

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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This study focuses on a specific phenomenon concerning nonsensical dialogical occurrences motivated by a kind speech production which systematically frustrates the interlocutors expectations. The questions I have been able to raise were triggered in 2001, when I first supervised the speech therapy processes of a 22 year-old-man with a clinical diagnosis of Down Syndrome. His utterances were frequently disturbing because they deviated from an unexpected narrative or dialogical argumentative direction. One can understand why the families complaints about these subject-speakers not seldom make mention to their difficulties in sustaining conversation or failure in conveying/attributing meaning to utterances and these complaints underlie the reason why they are advised to search for speech therapy. When medical and speech therapy literature on Down Syndrome are visited, one is surprised to attest the scarce theoretical discussion related to language problems, though it is a fact that communicative difficulties are widely recognized, though always reduced either to organic-ethiological factors (perceptual-cognitive ones) or to cognitive processing problems - out of question is the relationship speaker-speech-language. Pragmatics is often called upon to explain communicative disorders although, paradoxically, the violations at stake in dialogues with those patients cannot be assimilated to the ones dealt with in that field of linguistic studies. The Speech-Therapy area is widely known as having the clinical aim of (re)establishing communication. Thus, interaction techniques are devised to abolish or diminish cognitive deficits and, above all, communicative disorders. This study endeavors to develop the argument that there is an alternative fruitfull theoretical trend to approach and explore the clinical phenomenon of the so-called communicative disorder caused by meaning disturbance. The alternative trend put forward here is theoretically committed with the saussurean proposal concerning language as an autonomous order and, taking into account logical-epistemological and clinical-empirical reasons, also with the psychoanalytic hypothesis of the unconscious, concerning subjectivety. So, either interaction/dialogue commonly accepted as a observable relationship between two speakers or the transparency of the situational context is refused in this thesis. The CNPq Research Group, Aquisição, Patologias e Clínica de Linguagem, supervised by Maria Francisca Lier-DeVitto, at LAEL-DERDIC/PUCSP, provided this study with consistent epistemological position to approach both the linguistic and the psychoanalytic literature implied in this study

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linguistica aplicada language therapy deficiência mental aquisicao de linguagem language and down syndrome clínica de linguagem mental retardation fonoaudiologia sindrome de down speech pathology and therapy

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