Self-Consciousness, Linguistics of Orality and Text Hermeneutics

Abstract

Self-consciousness has been redefined in light of Twentieth Century linguistic studies. Thanks to this, self-consciousness has become mediated knowledge: on the one hand, as written and narrative knowledge; On the other hand, as conversational knowledge. As a result, two important perspectives of modernity meet, namely hermeneutics (Ricoeur) and linguistics (Ong and others). Thus, our goal is to elucidate the dialectics between orality and writing, understood as the discursive tension that characterizes the process of knowing oneself. In doing this, two moments are distinguished: the oral and written accounts of oneself, and the self-narrative exercise as a discursive event.