Language and memory as a way of power and resistance

Abstract

We examine different discourse situations in which we identify marks of historical transformations of our society: in the incongruity between intonation and meaning, in the absence of link and sequence in the dialogue and in the indifferentiation between enunciative positions. Such transformations point to a new form of power designated as totalitarian non-authoritarian, which operates through the erasure of the singularity of the subject and the promotion of an indifferent memory. The approach built for the examination and interpretation of those situations is based on dialogic discourse analysis and on the enunciative theory, supplemented by concepts of contemporary philosophy.