Abstract
This article draws connections between the notions of enunciator position, positioning, and posture, which structure the dialogic, cognitive and interactional coproduction of utterances. The notion of enunciative position corresponds to the fact that the (first or second) enunciator refers to objects of discourse while positioning him/herself with regard to them, by indicating from what point of view s/he considers them. In view of the dialogic nature of the discourse, two modal subjects and levels of responsibility can be discerned: the first enunciator has the role of agent in charge of the discourse and the second enunciators fulfill internal functions of validation, thus assuming a sort of responsibility which does not necessarily commit the first enunciator. The article then analyzes the dialogic strategies of positioning by enunciative intensification and distancing which account for autodialogic and heterodialogic situations. Finally, it deals with the enunciative postures of coenunciation, overenunciation, and underenunciation, which refine the notions of enunciative intensification or distancing by specifying the degrees of agreement, according to a dialectic between discordant concordance and concordant discordance.
