Langue, altérité et activité discursive

Abstract

This paper aims to approach the linguistic activity under the perspective of the interaction between individuals, as an alteration space where the presence of the Other is felt by identifying some specific signs. From phonetic level up to pragmatic one, the identity may be conceived through their linguistic subjectivity and through some phenomena of redouble the enouncing instances (dialogism and polyphony). We will insist upon some special situations, such as heterogeneity of the enounce, the reported discourse, irony, negation, presupposition. Our attempt also has a pedagogical dimension, necessary, we think, in order to point out that a study about polyphony has its possibilities in thinking the ratio between "I" and "the Other".