The discourse of objects: Circulation practices and techniques, between discursive secrecy and discursive display

Abstract

We study the material circulation of the discourse. We propose to center our research on material objects related to social practices of circulation of written discourse, produced in contexts particular socio-histories. Circulation is treated con-cretely: discourse move spatially (circula-tion) or temporally (transmission) by ma-terial supports, body, objects or artifacts. We exceed the traditional scriptural materi-alities (like the letter for example) for ob-jects where the verbal discourse and its «support» consi¬dered as socio-cognitive organizer are imbricated (for example: advertising objects which are made speech epidictic, military flag where the names of the battles constitute a group’s biography).