Testimony: between the inside and the outside of language

• Authors: Majewski T.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Georgio Agamben's considerations refer the radicalised notion of testimony to the possibility of speaking 'in lieu' of someone experiencing an impossibility of speaking, as concealed in daily use of language. In language, testimony is a paradoxical assumption of the position of a dead or impossible subject of speech. In a performance situation, anomy is integrated in the structure of articulation. It is in and through the latter that a split between the langue as a potentiality of speech and the parole as its impossibility is unveiled. As a purely linguistic option, testimony is situated between Foucault's 'archive', i.e. conditions enabling the event (or, occurrence) of discourse and impossibility of speaking, which, by paradox, is entrusted to the tongue.

Keywords

EN

AGAMBEN GEORGIO; ANOMY; TESTIMONY AS LINGUISTIC OPTION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 5(107)
• Pages: 74-84
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Majewski T.

• T. Majewski, Uniwersytet Lódzki, ul. Narutowicza 65, 90-131 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03607313