Discursive genre, enunciative position and dilemmas of didactic transposition: new reflections

Abstract

This work explores principles for the definition of discourse genre – in its vital correlation with spheres of activity – in terms of authorial agency (collective in genres and individual in the mobilization of its devices). This agency implies the organization of an architectonics (with a greater or lesser degree of freedom), and encompasses, subsuming, thematic unit (the totality of sense of the utterance/discourse), compositional form and (generic and authorial) style, something which imposes the utterer a certain specter of possible enunciative positions.