ABSTRACT

Between the generality of the meaning of words … and … the uniqueness of the acoustic event which occurs when an utterance is proffered, there takes place a process that permits the linkage of the two, which we call enunciation. This process does not suppose the existence of two physical bodies … but the presence of two (or more) social entities.… The time and the space in which enunciation occurs also aren’t purely physical categories, but a historical time and social space.