The Saussurean Conception of Linguistic Unit and Its Pertinence to the Speech of Stuttering Children

This work aims to discuss about linguistic matters on stuttering, considering it in relation to fluency/disfluency, seen here as distinct but connected phenomena. In language clinic, we observe that speech with stuttering produces awkwardness in who listens. Such effect is given by the 'difficulty' noticed in a speech in which units are undone e redone until the complete cessation of the problem, when patient, for example, sings, recites or performs, jokes or talks about him/herself to the therapist. In the stuttering speech phenomenon approach, it is considered, in this work, that a speech happening, although stuttered, is the instance in which the relation game that produces units is given, revealing itself submitted to internal language composition laws. Saussure's conception, which units are a relation effect & that its determination is reckoned as a complex matter, shocks what is common at speech clinic, in which language is taken as an object to be known & then susceptible to punctual correction, based on possible language units. In stuttering speech, units are undone & redone, giving visibility to a language phenomenon that summons a discussion on linguistic unit matters. This conduces us to admit, at first, the proper language order as well as a subject definition compatible to this acceptance. This work's goal is to reflect critically on linguistic phenomenon in stuttering speech & query the phenomenon description aspects in literature & speech clinic (PEREIRA, 2003). Even considering its linguistic character, usually the speech symptom is not admitted as a language fact & either the singularity of the subject relation as a language speaker. Adapted from the source document