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Lingüística

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CATRINI, Melissa  and  LIER-DEVITTO, Maria Francisca. COMMENTS ON CHILDREN’S PRAGMATIC (IN)FLEXIBILITY IN LANGUAGE CLINIC. Lingüística [online]. 2021, vol.37, n.1, pp.29-38.  Epub May 28, 2021. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20210003.

It is unquestionable that children's speech can be highly unpredictable to an extent that it may touch “a language consolidated limit” (Figueira 2015: 174). In such cases, a major cut-off effect ends up separating a child's speech from the language set conceived of as "normal speech”. In fact, symptomatic speech troubles the communicative dynamics in interaction situations and deeply affects what is assumed as pragmatic (in)flexibility. In order to reflect on that theme (pragmatic flexibility) when symptomatic speech is at stake, the present work discusses some child-adult dialogues in clinical situations. The analysis is based on European Structuralism and, on the speaker, Psychoanalysis. We conclude that identifying pragmatic flexibility in children with symptomatic speech does not help the recognition of singularity of the infantile speech manifestations.

Keywords : pragmatic flexibility; symptomatic speech; language clinic, language acquisition.

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