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In [[linguistics|linguistic theory]] in Europe, one important distinction is that between the [[enunciation]] and the [[statement]].
The [[statement]] refers to the actual words uttered; the [[enunciation]] refers to the act of uttering them.
=====Linguistic Produciton=====
This distinction concerns two ways of regarding linguistic production.
=====Statement=====
* When linguistic production is analyzed in terms of abstract grammatical units (such as sentences), independent of the specific circumstances of occurrence, it is referred to as a [[statement]].
:The [[statement]] is analysed in terms of abstract grammaticla units, independent of the specific circumstances of occurrence.
=====Enunciation=====
* On the other hand, when linguistic production is analyzed as an individual act performed by a particular speaker at a specific time / place, and in a specific situation, it is referred to as an "[[enunciation]]."
:The [[enunciation]] is analyzed as an individual act performed by a particular speaker at a specific time/place, and in a specific situation.
=====Jacques Lacan=====
=====Early Work=====
Long before [[Lacan]] uses these terms, he is aleady making a similar distinction.
In 1936, for example, he stresses that the act of [[speech|speaking]] contains a [[meaning]] in itself, even if the words spoken are "[[signification|meaningless]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p.83</ref>
Prior to any function it may have in "conveying a message," [[speech]] is an appeal to the [[other]].
In the [[graph of desire]], the lower [[signifying chain|chain]] is the [[statement]], which is [[speech]] in its [[conscious]] dimension, while the upper [[signifying chain|chain]] is "the unconscious enunciation."<ref>{{E}} p.316</ref>
=====Discourse of the OtherUnconscious Enunciation=====
In designating the [[enunciation]] as [[unconscious]], [[Lacan]] affirms that the source of [[speech]] is not the [[ego]], nor [[consciousness]], but the [[unconscious]]; [[language]] comes from the [[Other]], and the idea that "I" am [[master]] of my [[discourse]] is only an [[delusion|illusion]].
=====Subject of the Statement or Subject of the Enunciation=====The very word "I" (''Je'') is ambiguous; as [[shifter]], it is both a [[signifier]] acting as [[subject]] of the [[statement]], and an [[index]] which designate, but does not [[signification|signify]], the [[subject]] of the [[[enunciation]].<ref>{{E}} p.298</ref>
=====Split Subject=====
The [[subject]] is thus [[split]] between these two levels, divided in the very act of articulating the ''I'' that presents the illusion of unity.<ref>{{S11}} p.139</ref>
==See Also==
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[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Linguistics]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Language]]
[[Category:Symbolic]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Terms]]
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