Inserções enunciativas, autonímia e suppositio semantica

Abstract

As a particular kind of direct speech, enunciative insertions represent instances of autonymous sign structures: in usage, one clearly discriminates between mention of extralinguistic referents (suppositio formalis) and mention of the signs themselves (suppositio materialis). In this paper, we examine an intermediate case, in which not only is it relevant to mention autonymously the sign itself, but also to mention some specific meaning that this sign must emphasize: these are cases of Suppositio semantica.