QUELQUES REMARQUES SUR LA SUBJECTIVITE LANGAGIERE
SOME REMARKS ON LINGUISTIC SUBJECTIVITY

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to analyze the speech, from the perspective of subjectivity in language, as the subject of an utterance almost always leaves traces in that utterance. Which are the linguistic indicators of subjectivity in a discourse, and how can we identify them? In other words, we are asking ourselves what does a speaker openly say, what does he or she allow to be understood, what do they demonstrate through their speech, and what do they allow to be seen—deliberately or not—from their inner selves. First, we will attempt to present various interpretations of the idea of subjectivity in language, ideas belonging to the most significant linguistic works on enunciation. Next, we will discuss deixis which has the significant responsibility of transforming language into speech (we will mention personal pronouns and demonstratives here). In order to ultimately discuss explicit /vs/ implicit subjectivity, we will briefly go through the parts of speech with a subjective feature (subjective nouns, subjective adjectives, subjective verbs, and subjective adverbs). As a main support of our work we drew on C. Kerbrat Orecchioni's theory on subjectivity in language, as well as on some of the most significant works on enunciation from the 19th century.

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