Ce que disent les autres : de quelques procédés de déresponsabilisation dans la perspective énonciative
„What the Others Say” on Some Procedures of Non-assumed Responsibility from an Enunciative Perspective

Summary/Abstract: Viewed from a pragmatic and enunciative perspective, the text is no longer conceived as a homogeneous linear organization, a fact that triggers a new manner of understanding and approaching the verbal communication. In its quality of a transfrastic interactive structure, the text bears the marks of the enunciator/speaking subject, who assumes it, explicitly or implicitly and, at the same time, he sets it in relation with other texts (through commentary, parody, quotation). In the same time, the discourse becomes polyphonic, because, in many situations/circumstances, by using certain procedures, his author does no longer fully assume responsibility for the uttered content. Therefore, we can highlight different marks that point to the alterity of the discourse and that are evident, especially, in the use of quotation marks. The points of view expressed this way by different „voices” (enunciators/speaking subjects), which may or may not coincide with those of the locutor, will be analysed in a set of texts from written media. This paper will show that their function is that of miming objectivity in narrating facts, whereas the real goal of the journalist is that of imposing his own commentary on the event, sometimes even at the cost of manipulating the receiver.

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