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Les paradigmes entrecroisés des instances énonciatives et des points de vue
The Intertwined Paradigms of Instances of Enunciation and Points of View

Author(s): Alain Rabatel
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Echinox
Keywords: point of view; speaker; enunciator; empathy; dialogism; interpretation.

Summary/Abstract: This article characterises the instances of enunciation at the source of points of view by reworking the concept of the separation between speaker and enunciator inherited from Ducrot 1984. It considers that points of view result from the choices of referencing of propositional contents which orient their interpretation. These choices of referencing can be those of the first speaker, but also those of the second or even those of enunciators that the first speaker reconstructs empathically through meta-representation, independantly from a speech act. The article then distinguishes between different types of point of view, represented, embryonic and asserted. Finally, it analyses different expressions of more or less distanciated or consonant relationships that the first enunciator has with the points of view of others, thus marking all the complexity of the dialogic paradigm and the questions of interpretation.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 97-116
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: French