Marcas de subjetividade enunciativa e ensino de PLE

Abstract

The concepts of enunciation and subjectivity gain theoretical centrality in Benveniste's work. If enunciation is defined as the conversion of language into discourse, subjectivity is "the ability of the speaker to propose himself as a subject" in this enunciation (Benveniste 1988:286), to propose himself as I, establishing through the same enunciative act a YOU. Subjectivity is always intersubjectivity. The speaker shares with his addressee the ways of being present that he chooses depending on various constraints, or rules and regularities of language use. Learning a foreign language means learning these ways of being present in discourse. The aim of this work is to show how some of the linguistic-discursive categories through which the speaker constructs his (inter)subjectivity can be applied to the teaching of Portuguese as a foreign language (PLE). The analysis of the forms of address in a small corpusof birthday messages allows us to exemplify these values and uses.