Fidelity and change: the relationship between forms of life and enunciative praxis

Abstract

Based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of French Semiotics, this article aims to reflect on the relationship between the concepts "forms of life" and "enunciative praxis". According to the theory, the forms of life highlight the ways in which individuals and collectives perceive the world and make be known their conceptions of existence. Furthermore, they concern both maintenance and transformation, because they are formed and disintegrated by use, they are invented, practiced or rejected by the enunciating instances. That consideration refers to the notion of enunciative praxis, when reflecting on the transition from what is limited and stabilized in the language system to what is unique and innovative in the discourse exercise. In this way, the work is based on the understanding that the dynamics of enunciative praxis allows the contrast between traditional forms of life, stored in the cultural system, and those inventive, that transgress the established codes and uses to found a new axiology. This approaching allows the insertion in the theory of discussions related to the use, the cultural identities, the variation of structures and their typification.