Questões sobre os embaraços da relação criança-linguagem: a presença do nome próprio e de pronomes pessoais

Abstract

This study discusses questions raised by children with strong difficulties concerning the use of pronouns, which leads to an embarrassing dialogical relationship. Those children enter the Speech Therapy Clinic with the psychiatric diagnosis of global disorder or pervasive developmental disorders or autism or psychosis . Their utterances are not addressed to the other-therapist interestingly enough, there is no pronominal inversion between I/YOU, expected in dialogical situations. One effect of such a situation is that therapists tend to refer to themselves and the children by means of their proper names. Linguistics is here visited in search for adequate theorization and conceptualization concerning the pronouns (Benveniste is at stake). Saussure is also revisited, since he is at the basis of the so called European Structuralism. In the area of Language Acquisition, De Lemos‟s article on the use of pronouns by children is a landmark in the field and was privileged in the present study. The author approaches the long period of glaring instability referring to both the proper name and pronoun reversibility in the process of language acquisition. There are, however, as pointed out above, children who do not reach a stable state they fall into symptomatic/pathological classifications. The argument here stated and advanced is that instability gets stabilized. Psychoanalysis offers a consistent theorization about the human subject and also about its constitution. Given the perspective adopted in the thesis, that clinical field became an important source of theoretical research. Finaly, the present study is affiliated to the CNPq Research Group "Acquisition, Pathology and Language Clinic" coordinated by Prof. Dr. Maria Francisca Lier-DeVitto and Prof. Dr. Lucia Arantes, at LAEL-PUCSP