Contexto como condição de interpretação do enunciado / Context as a condition of interpretation of the utterance

In this presentation, we try to reflect on the relation between the concept of utterance on one hand, and the concepts of linguistic (or cotext) and situational context (or situation) on the other. There is a mutual dependence between the units that make up an utterance. The units that occur concurrently in an utterance interact and determine each other semantically. The process of multiple interaction at stake in this cotextualisation is a phenomenon that concerns any kind of unit or utterance. In the same way, one might consider, following Franckel (2000 for example) that every utterance acquires a signification through its being anchored to a situation - in what is relevant for its interpretation and may be made verbally explicit or not - while at the same time every utterance as a token determines its situational context. In this respect, the situational context will not be defined simply in terms of exteriority in relation to the utterance (as is the case in pragmatics): it constitutes the very condition of interpretation of the utterance and is thus also a construction. This issue, illustrated by a few examples, leads us to the problem of the relation between referent and referential values, i. e. the relation between the extralinguistic and linguistic domains. Moreover, in an analysis based on these principles, what matters is not the relation between utterance and situational context (as happens in pragmatics) but rather the relation between conditions of interpretation and interpretation itself.