The "phantoms of truth"

quasi-PEC, enunciative postures, and empathic mobility

Abstract

This article analyzes the constitution of the enunciative subject and the polyphonic management of responsibility, examining how points of view (POV) are staged in discourse. Situated within the framework of Integrated Discourse Analysis (IDA) and building on Ducrot's polyphonic theory, Berrendonner's linguistic pragmatics, and Rabatel's Theory of Points of View, the study employs a pragmatic framework to investigate dialogic interactionism. The study adopts a qualitative, enunciation-based analysis of heterogeneous textual fragments. The findings reveal the dynamics between locutors and dialogic enunciators, showing that the imputation and implicit validation of contents (quasi-PEC) give rise to what the paper calls the "phantoms of truth" - an enunciative spectrality through which subjects naturalize presuppositions and validate assertions via enunciative erasure and disinscription, without taking direct responsibility for what is said. The study concludes that command of enunciative postures and the exercise of empathic mobility not only structure textual asymmetries but also serve as fundamental ethical principles for dialogic decentering and the dismantling of dogmatism.