Linguistics and production of subjectivity: incipient relationships

Abstract

In the present article we seek to investigate two conceptions of language: the formalista and the pragmatic, in a few of its approaches. From this contrast, we will aim to indicate some consequences of these conceptions to the way we understand literature and its link to the production of subjectivity. Thus, in a first moment, we will attempt to explain Saussure´s view of language and it´s consequences to the way we understand the relationship between author and work of art. Next, we will turn to Austin´s pragmatics, seeking to constrast it with the Saussurian theory. Finally, we will see the pragmatics of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as their implications in the way we comprehend the process of literary writing and its effects over the production of subjectivity. In this way, we seek to indicate that the writing process itself is creative, engendering the production of language, the world and the writer’s own subjectivity simultaneously.