In the semiotics of orality, the body is not a secondary support for meaning but the very material of enunciation. Patrizia Violi observes that in oral discourse “sense is literally embodied, since the body constitutes the material of expression of this semiotics.” The body thus establishes the plane of expression in the same way that textual substance…
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Semiotics of Orality: Sense in Action, Body and Voice in Enunciation
Patrizia Violi proposes to consider a specific form of the arts du faire: the art du dire. According to her, semiotics has long neglected this form of meaning production: its textualist tradition has led it to privilege the analysis of already textualized products rather than the practices that generate meaning. The discipline, in other words, has focused…

