La voix et le point de vue comme formes polyphoniques externes

Abstract

This study concerns two oppositions. The first is between two levels in the constitution of the semantic subject constitutive of polyphonic structures of language, voices and points of view. They relate to responsibility for forms and for contents, respectively. The second is between external and internal polyphony. It concerns the fact that polyphonic structures can simply link a voice and a point of view from the same enonciateur (responsible for the effective utterance), or be enriched to include different enonciateurs responsible for virtual utterances either cited (as a voice) or reformulated (as a point of view) by the effective utterance. These oppositions are finally applied to the issue of descriptive, polemical and metalinguistic negation.