In Joseph (2025) I survey a range of figures who contributed to the concept of énonciation ‘enunciation’ over the course of the 20th century. Enunciation is an approach to the analysis of language that is centred on speakers and the act of speaking, rather than, or in addition to, the language system (langue) and the texts produced using it (parole). I have proposed that enunciation should not be treated, as is sometimes done, as the creation of one scholar, Émile Benveniste, but rather as a ‘distributed’ invention by Benveniste and the others discussed, who include J. L. Austin, Charles Bally, Leonard Bloomfield, Jacques Damourette, Jean Dubois, Michel Foucault, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Bronisɬaw Malinowski, Édouard Pichon, Hendrik Pos and Tvetzan Todorov.
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