Introduction (version anglaise) de Signifiances (Signifying) 5.1

What is it about?

We are at the heart of a theorising of action, but of a situated action that not only crosses several domains of relevance but leads to their transformation. With the collaboration of researchers from various backgrounds, this issue therefore proposes to study the forms which a linguistics of individuals, in the sense specified above,has taken, is taking, or could take today, that is,a linguistic of social actors with their concrete temporal dimension. More precisely, the aim is to understand this process with considerations of other approaches that also focus on the historicity proper to the emergence of meaning, on the distance necessary for the constitution of signs, and on how subjects-actors validate and collectively adopt the representations they construct in the present. We will thus consider the dynamics of the construction of norms, the contextual semiotisation of interaction and (as a matter of course insofar as they help to model the emergence of meaning) the perspectives opened up by interactional (socio)linguistics, along with those that are part of the socio-anthropological legacy,or those that incorporate ethnomethodological reflection. In very general terms, the point was to ask what the linguistic actor creates, how he creates it, and what theory he simultaneously constructsof his own activity. These three aspects are an integral part of the semiotic dynamic.

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