مفهوم الخطاب في الثقافة الغربية : مرجعياته، دلالاته، وظائفه

Abstract EN

This article aims to examin the concept of discourse in western culture, and stands at its scientific, philosophical and linguistic references, It also discusses the dimensions of cognitive discourse, investigates its functions, and questioned its relationships with language, thought and power.

For this reason, we traced the most important theorical origins of discourse in the western heritage, and we looked at his philosiphical background.

We also clarified its multiple connotations, starting with Descarte, throught the Pécheux works, Foucault, Althusser, and other, down to the propositions linguistics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language.

We have concluded that those cognitive domains approached the discourse with its methodological vision, wich gave an accumulations in definition, and a multiplicity of functions.