Due usi italiani di "enunciazione"

This article examines two uses of the word enunciation in some recentcontributions of the italian semiotics: a) “enunciation” as activation of open semanticpotentials (VIOLI 2003) ; b) “enunciation” as modulation of local encyclopedic sections(PAOLUCCI 2010). Thanks to the theoretical resources of two fundamental researchprograms as Benveniste’s linguistics (LEB) and Culioli’s theory of predicative andenunciative operations (TOPE), we try to demonstrate that these uses are variants of thesame general idea, i.e. “actualization” of encyclopedic virtualities. In the last section of thepaper, we formulate some questions that remain open in the context of this investigation.