L’enunciazione visiva e la classificazione dei linguaggi

Abstract

The essay argues that the concept of enunciation, developed in the field of language studies, is also valid for non-verbal semiotics, and particularly for visual languages. This extension concerns all the parameters that constitute the general conditions of enunciation identified by Émile Benveniste (the cadre figuratif, i.e. enunciator, addressee, internal reference) taking into account that every form of expressivity –every semiotics– actualizes them in texts in a specific way. From this premise, the essay examines Meyer Schapiro’s application of enunciation to visual semiotics.