This case study is aimed at clinical and theoretical issues concerning the holophrastic speech of a teenager. Its objective is to investigate the structure and function of this holophrastic speech. The speech data of this teenager was extracted from therapy sessions, clinical material, and the theoretical model of multi-layering of the language symptoms has aided in its analysis. We observed, in particular, the raising, by the speech therapist, of the meta-procedure of sanction and its impact on the recognition or denial of the subject and the signifier, coupled to listening to the speech of the teenager. In this way the holophrastic speech had its enigmatic specificity questioned from the uniqueness of the clinical material, whether in the literalness of the data, or by listening to the amorphous and sonorous mass that constitutes it. The results support the hypothesis that the holophrastic speech would be a language symptom constituted by the agglutination of unintelligible segments that are presented as an amorphous and sonorous mass formed by a mixing of signifiers, heard as distorted, fused or without pause between them. Despite its functional and structural specificity, holophrastic speech has its functioning subjected to its own order of language articulated to the individual event of the subject's speech.
Case Study; Speech Therapy; Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences