Entre auteur et locuteurs, l’énonciateur textuel : concept inutile ou figure-clé ?

Abstract

This article distinguishes the concept of text enunciator from that of author: whereas the author’s position results from his/her work but also from the discourses he/she holds and those that circulate about him/her in the media space, the text enunciator is the first speaker/enunciator who produces the text and establishes a different relationship with the diegesis according to the enunciative situation chosen by the author. The article compares these different situations and studies the relations that the text enunciator maintains with the second - speakers, focusing on its marks in the case of theatre texts or first-person novels from which it seems to be absent. The article argues that this concept, rooted in Ducrot’s and Rabatel’s polyphony, can account for the functioning of literary works independently of their genres.

Keywords

• author
• didascalia
• enunciative situation
• narrator
• polyphony
• text enunciator