Narrativas e crianças: da comunicação à expressão

Abstract

Considering narratives as a form of social and cultural communication, since without narration there is no culture, this study simultaneously puts a focus on both the loss of the possibility of narrating in modern times and the need for the preservation of narratives, approached in this study as a form of access to expression for children exhibiting several verbal and written communication problems who suffer as a result of these problems. This is observed in the investigation of the charter of narratives in the speech-language pathology clinic, the subject matter of the present study. The field of research is delimited by work with children, and the analysed material covers literary works of fiction, with special emphasis given to some short stories by Clarice Lispector that pivot around the adult-child relationship, works of literature, motion-picture and television programs intended for a young audience, as well as material from certain clinical situations selected from within the researcher s collection. This material sets the basis for a comparative study between literary narratives and narratives gathered from clinical observations. The theoretical support for this research is the dialog between literature, speech-language pathology and communication. The psychoanalytic viewpoint also makes an essential contribution in comprehending the communication processes studied hereunder, notably the problematic of narrative and the adult or juvenile narrator, since, although the field of research is focused on children, the adult is the one who first tells the stories of a culture. It is also from this viewpoint that one can infer the importance of the narrative activity for the creation of the subject and the demand for new forms to narrate the human experience