Perception and Enunciation

Abstract

We ask ourselves in what sense is it possible to consider the process of perception as an enunciation. The necessary condition is, without a doubt, to be able to demonstrate under what perspective the act of perception can be conceived as a semiosis. We review the phenomenological analyses of the perceived world and in particular the notion of the noema of perception. We try afterwards, to show why it is possible to take this noema of perception as a plan of expression by opening the way to a semiotic analysis of the perceived world.

On this basis, it is possible to consider the development of a perception as the process of an enunciation. We take as an example the tasting of wine. Taste is basically a strongly aspectual sense and very easily authorizes an analysis in the form of development. On this basis we show how taste not only registers a succession of flavors but also constitutes a dynamic icon of its object. There is, as a result, a generativity of perception comparable with that which can be attributed to linguistic enunciation.