The therapist’s linguistic mechanisms of intervention and their effects on the patient’s speech in language clinic

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Paula Ávila
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Calidoscópio (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2016.142.13

This article is based on two presuppositions. The first one is that, in speech therapy sessions, the therapist is usually expected to “correct” the speech (considered deviant) of his/her patient. The second one is that from this expectation results a very peculiar enunciative configuration: the therapist makes several interventions in the speech production of his patient. Given these interventions are both on meaning and form, we thus ask, as the objective of this study: what effects do the therapist’s linguistic interventions have on his/her patient’s speech? In order to answer it, this article uses the Benvenistian enunciative perspective as theoretical framework to analyze transcriptions of excerpts of sessions in which a child is being treated, aiming to describe the therapist’s mechanisms of intervention in the speech of his/her patient and the generated effects. The results point to a focus on form, disregarding meaning, which makes us reflect on the linguistic status of these interventions when compared to those made in different, natural contexts.Keywords: enunciative studies, language clinic, intervention.