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2015 : « Le vouloir-dire et le silence des langues », dans Acta linguistica, Journal for Theoretical Linguistics, Banská Bystrica, Ekonomická fakulta, Slovaquie, numéro 10, p. 6-16

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This paper deals with so-called “mind-saying” and “silence of languages”. These concepts mainly belong to cognitive linguistics and specifically to “linguistic neoteny” (theory of uncompleted speaker). Every human being develops a different cognitive relation with the languages he speaks. Nevertheless, those languages obligate him to accept cognitive restrictions to deal with quantity, quality and frequency of the formulations. The restrictions force the speaker to choose between the linguistic production (le dire) and the lack of linguistic production (le non-dire). In the first case, the enunciation is built with the units needed for the expression and the expressiveness of the language. Under the latter, the enunciation is built with the absence of expression and expressiveness. Linguistic neoteny allows us to consider that differences between languages concern not only their syntactic constructions or in general their grammatical possibilities, but first their cognitive subjects which create alternatively one of two main cognitive fields: saying (le dire) or silence (le non-dire). Every language incorporates this cognitive alternative. Every speaker “speaks twice”: firstly, when he says something and secondly, when he is silent.