TEMATIZAREA ETHOS-ULUI POETIC POSTMODERN
THEMATIZING POSTMODERN POETIC ETHOS

Summary/Abstract: „Ethos” or the discursive image of the enunciator is an interdisciplinary concept employed in argumentative rhetoric, in literary pragmatics and in psycho-sociology. In the first part of the article I have presented ancient theories (Aristotle) and modern theories about ethos (Oswald Ducrot, Jean-Michel Adam, Dominique Maingueneau, Christian Plantin, Ruth Amossy). In the framework of the polyphonic enunciation theorized by O. Ducrot I have distinguished the prediscursive extralinguistic level of the subject as a presence in the world from the discursive level of the enunciator engaged in verbal interaction. „Ethos” is (with Plantin) an emotional and relational notion, which links the text to the context. I have highlighted, with respect to the poetry of the eighties, four patterns of thematizing the discursive ethos: (a) one enunciator - one voice; (b) one enunciator - two voices; (c) the enunciative polyphony of the palimpsestic ethos; (d) the metonymic transgression of the enunciator to the effects of the utterance. The self-ironic and parodic ethos displayed by poets of the eighties, configured in the ambiguous space of transactions between the prediscursive ethos and the discursive one, dramatizes the identitary gap and the relationship with the other.

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