L’énonciation entre composition et scénarisation

The concept of scene remains largely underexplored in semiotics, despite its capacity to articulate key tensions within enunciation. Building on Jean-Claude Coquet’s reflections on the “re- presentation” of reality, enunciation is here conceived as a modal interface: on the one hand, it engages with an environment in which certain instances are implicated; on the other hand, it opens onto a space of values governed by a semiotic jurisdiction (or symbolic institution). This enunciative interface may operate reflexively, provided it traverses three distinct regimes : composition, which thematizes an actantial project within a dedicated linguistic space, shaped by a strong symbolic economy ; configuration, which identifies and arranges relationships within a heterogeneous environment by comparing the prerogatives of multi-positional actors ; and finally, scenarization, which animates the interplay between composition and configuration by articulating the tensions between events and projects, actoriality and actantiality. These tensions, understood in terms of modal proportion, define a regime of implication for the instances involved, balancing distinctive categories (actors) and participative ones (actants). This theoretical approach thus examines the capacity of enunciation to manage the heterogeneity of values, the polyvalence of actors, and the unpredictability of contingencies.