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COLAS-BLAISE, Marion. Subjectivity, subjectality and subjectivation: how to become a subject. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2019, n.41, pp.57-77. ISSN 2594-0619.

The theoretical and methodological frame of this paper is given by greimassian and post-greimassian semiotics linked to linguistics. At the cross-roads of these disciplines, enunciative semiotics enables us to examine further the notions of subjectivity, subjectality and subjectivation, as they enter into the definition of the subject of enunciation. These notions are closely interrelated.

More precisely, we approach these notions from three points of view. First, we focus on the marks, traces and prints (empreintes) in a text in order to examine further the notion of expressivity, which is related to one of the regimes of subjectivity: the “subjective” subjectivity, which characterizes the subject of enunciation. Secondly, we turn our attention to the origins of the subject of enunciation and we identify two more regimes of subjectivity: the “participant” subjectivity, which is related to a sensitive body (corps-actant) and its sensori-motricity, and the “subjectal” subjectivity, which is linked to perception. Thirdly, we want to show how the “subjective” subjectivity and the subject of enunciation take shape in a text not only through marks, traces and prints, but even more so through the organizational forms called genre, style, idiolect or texture.

Thus the subject of enunciation may be defined as the convergence point of three regimes of subjectivity, which characterize the development of the subject (subjectivation). The different levels corresponding to the “participant”, the “subjectal” and the “subjective” regimes of subjectivity define an enunciative path.

Palavras-chave : regimes of subjectivity; expressivity; enunciative subject.