Les identités du sujet parlant. Les cas de quelques écrivains migrants de/dans l’espace méditerranéen
The Identities of the 1st Person Narrator. The Case of Several Immigrant Writers in the Mediterranean Space

Summary/Abstract: The difficulty of defining identity, invoked by specialists when speaking about the concept and about its sphere of action, does not stop showing itself in the field of speech analysis, but things clear up when we add "two notions which also circulate in the philosophic and psychological domains, that of the subject and the otherness". Both notions exist in speech analysis: a) the enunciator, the one who sais "I" b) a relationship of consciousnesses: consciousness of the existence of "I" and of the existence of the other, "you". The support of our reflection is constituted by the literary speech of the Romanians Panait Istrati, Maria Mailat, Oana Orlea and Dumitru Tsepeneag. The plan of our analysis combines both directions underlined by Charaudeau and Maingueneau (2002). We are thus going to establish the features which define the personal identity : psychosocial identity of the speaking subject - age, sex, status, hierarchical place legitimacy in the world and the discursive identity - modes of speaking, discursive roles then the features which define the identity of location. This analysis will be refined by some additions we are going to notice in the literary speech of the foreign writers of French expression. By the voice of the speaking subject shown through a plural identity of the author, pluralism is stressed by the spatial mobility which characterizes them.

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