The point-of-view effect and its modalities of textual configuration according to the theories of Alain Rabatel

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Samira Ahansazsalmasi 1
Mahdi Afkahmi Nia 2
Mohammad-Hossein Djavari 2
Mohammad Mohammadi-Aghdash 3
1 Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shiraz University
2 Department of French, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran,
3 Department of French, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
10.48311/lrr.2026.118989.83071
Abstract
The capacity of the speaking subject—the “I” who speaks and addresses oneself—to alter the content of what is said, perceived, or thought by the subject of the utterance—the other or the other self—has recently become the focus of new approaches in the linguistics of enunciation. The French linguist Alain Rabatel, through the notion of the “point-of-view effect” highlights the traces of the enunciating subject’s subjectivity within represented discourse. This notion manifests through different modalities of point of view: represented, narrated, and asserted. This article reflects on the various linguistic representations of subjectivity and the mechanisms through which they emerge in the discourse of the other. The objective is to examine the operational nature of Rabatelian approach, focusing on the investigation of literary corpus. An analysis of examples drawn from Passage of Milan (Michel Butor) and Nocturnal Harmony (Reza Ghassemi) demonstrates the extent to which the point of view of the representing subject can influence that of the subject of the utterance and modify its interpretation.
Keywords
Alain Rabatel
point-of-view effect
asserted point of view
represented point of view
embryonic point of view
Subjects
Language Related Research

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Available Online from 20 June 2026