Investigating the term ‘enunciation’ to a history of linguistic ideas

Abstract

The history of Linguistics has been written in various ways. Linked or not to concepts from other areas, few scholars of Linguistics thought about their own criteria of historicity (NORMAND, 2009). With this issue in mind, we aim at discussing two methods of historical study of the word 'enunciation’ underlining the work of Aya Ono (2007) and Simone Delassale (1986). The first paper explores the historicity of the word ‘enunciation’ internal to the work of a linguist. The second, the historicity of 'enunciation’ in various sources. We will try to demonstrate the contributions of each work to the study of the history of linguistics. Our methodological procedures are based on the elaboration of theoretical notions by Normand (2009a). We conclude that the work of Delesalle (1986) represents an opportunity of reflextion to the linguist at present times, because it leads us to think of the figure of a narrator-linguist in a 'polyphonic' way.