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INCE Ferdinand de Saussure, European linguistics has tried to break its bonds with philosophy and the presuppositions of philosophy, so as to warrant its own autonomy and status as a scientific discipline. For this reason, it eliminated the concept of thought, too closely bound to the problem of mental activity and to the problem of ontological subject; it replaced the concept of by that of meaning signification, better adapted for the analysis of this social phenomenon, language. As is known, meaning-defined as the form resulting from the union of a signifier signifiant and a signified signifil--may be grasped and studied at two different moments instances: either (a) at the time of the language act, for which we shall use the term enunciation, when semiosis takes place; or (b) after this operation: the result of semiosis will then correspond to the actualized utterance, or statement inonce. This distinction is comparable to a relation used in philosophy: the difference between thinking pensie pensante and thought pensee penste is, in fact, parallel to the opposition (and complementarity) that we posit here between enunciation and utterance.
Greimas et al. (Thu,) studied this question.