How is linguistics to be situated at present within the humane sciences taken as a whole? Cl. Hagège has attempted to sum up the results obtained from the research into language carried out in the lost few decades. He has drawn the conclusion that the object of linguistics, if it is not to be lacking, must be approached simultaneously from three points of view: the system, the connection with the world, the enunciation. According to this theory a phenomenological view of language is revealed as being an activity which creates systems that make sense. That which is universal in language is human reality in dialoguing essence; language is identified with the constitution of the subject. The classical notion of consciousness, as presence to on...