Wish you were here. From Pink Floyd to impersonal enunciation

Abstract

For several years I have been trying to formulate a semiotic theory of impersonal enunciation, which is capable of accounting for all the dimensions that, historically, have been thought of under this notion (see Colas-Blaise, Perrin, Tore 2016). By "impersonal", I mean a theory of enunciation that is founded on "he", which, in the classical theory of Benveniste - later placed at the foundation of the semiotic one - was precisely the category of the "non-person" (hence " impersonal").