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Silent say, saying effective and discourse mask

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In communication, every speaker must choose meticulously the aptness in the word, the gesture, the smile, the look or even the silence. The being-speaker hides and beyond protects himself behind his discursive mask which provides him with a linguistic security. While many disciplines - social psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy – have seized the notion of the mask in their frame of reference, this concept still remains absent today in the language sciences. However, the game of masks substitution is fundamental in language activity. This game is so usual that we do not even notice it anymore, except in situations where we are explicitly asked to make an effort to adapt to the rule of the new game. Therefore, the main objective of this thesis is to fill in this epistemological gap. Finding a unifying springboard that includes the notion of the mask in the language sciences will allow us to rethink with a new perspective the whole of the behaviors and discursive choices (linguistic silence) of the being-speaker in communication. Moreover, if the mask has always responded to an existential need of man because of his vulnerability, then by following this path we will be able to identify possible angles of a new interpretation of linguistic security and of linguistic vulnerability, an absent notion in the language sciences. Such a problematic requires an interdisciplinary approach because it is only the convergence of several theoretical frameworks - sociology, psychology, philosophy, psychoanalysis and linguistics - that is able to give the best account of a phenomenon as complex as that of the being-speaker in communication.