A ESCUTA NAS TRÊS OPERAÇÕES ENUNCIATIVAS DO ATO DE INSTAURAÇÃO DA CRIANÇA NA LÍNGUA MATERNA

Abstract

This article aims to answer the following question: what is the role of listening in the different enunciative macro-operations for the child to carry out the main changes within these macro-operations? In order to answer this question, the article features a theoretical basis and an analytical basis. The theoretical basis consists of revisiting texts from Émile Benveniste’s books Problems in General Linguistics I and Problems in General Linguistics II, to show how the term listener appears in the reflections about language, a language [langue] and enunciation. Based on the notion of listener, we will present a concept of listening as an in-between enunciative instance of vocal manifestations in the enunciative invertibility I-you. This theoretical construction, based on Benveniste (1995, 1989), is combined with the reflection on native language acquisition proposed by Silva (2007, 2009), which presents the functioning of the three enunciative macro-operations in the child’s introduction into their native language. To answer the question analytically, enunciative fragments presented by Silva (2007) are reviewed to illustrate the role of listening in each of the macro-operations. Finally, the study points to the interdependence of vocal manifestations and listening in the history of the child's enunciations and, consequently, in their introduction into their native language.