The meta-enunciative stratum, inscription of the subject in his saying: theoretical and descriptive implications of a literal approach, an example of unrealizable modalities of the saying

Abstract

There is no outside place from where to apprehend language in itself –  sense and enunciation – as objects, but there is from its inside, the possibility of a reflexive return of the enunciator upon his own words; there is a metalinguistic stratum allowing the reflexive return of the enunciator to his own words by means of other words. Be it discreet or invasive, this meta-enunciative monitoring deserves special attention, given the unique way each one negotiates this movement: this “supplementary reaching” of the meta-enunciation brings about deep zones of the enunciation, intimate gears of each one´s mode of  “inscribing” oneself in language and its peculiarities. In this paper, we discuss some of the formal, enunciative properties of these “enunciation moments”, which constitute, in the sayings, the reflexive turns taken; a meta-enunciative approach will be adopted, particularly directed to the multiple nuances of the unrealizable modes of saying, which consist of saying X in a self-represented mode of not doing so.