Angenot and Pêcheux: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Drifts
This paper presents a comparative analysis of Michel Pêcheux’s and Marc Angenot’s discourse theories by arguing that the main difference between them lies on the shift from a vertical determination model rooted on class antagonism to a horizontal regulation system operating on the totality of social...
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I48-R154-article-89032025-12-18T23:11:05Z Angenot and Pêcheux: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Drifts Angenot y Pêcheux. Fundamentos teóricos y derivas metodológicas Boccardi, Facundo Análisis materialista del discurso Hegemonía Discurso social Interdiscurso Materialist discourse analysis Hegemony Social discourse Interdiscourse This paper presents a comparative analysis of Michel Pêcheux’s and Marc Angenot’s discourse theories by arguing that the main difference between them lies on the shift from a vertical determination model rooted on class antagonism to a horizontal regulation system operating on the totality of social discursivity. Indebted to Althusserian Marxism, Pêcheux’s framework understands discourse as the effect of class struggle materialized in language. Its theoretical apparatus articulates the ideological formation, which determines the discursive formation, with the asymmetrical relationship between interdiscourse (the memory of antagonism) and intradiscourse (the thread of speech). The subject is an effect of the ideological interpellation constituted through mechanisms like the preconstructed, which presents the product of the forces’ relation as its evidence. Pêcheux’s analysis aims to unveil contradiction and ideological subjection. Conversely, Marc Angenot focuses on social discourse: the totality of the utterable in a society. His key concept is the idea of discursive hegemony, which is a global anonymous regulating system that, through the topos and doxa (shared presuppositions and beliefs), guarantees the cohesion and inter-legibility of all discourses, even antagonistic ones. His focus lies not on determination, but on regulation; not on contradiction, but on coherence. In sum, the exploration concludes that Pêcheux offers tools to analyze conflict, while Angenot provides a framework for understanding consensus and social cohesion. Este artículo presenta un análisis comparativo de las teorías del discurso de Michel Pêcheux y Marc Angenot, argumentando que la diferencia fundamental entre ambos radica en el paso de un modelo de determinación vertical, basado en el antagonismo de clase, a un sistema de regulación horizontal que opera sobre la totalidad de la discursividad social. La propuesta de Pêcheux, deudora del marxismo althusseriano, concibe el discurso como el efecto de la lucha de clases materializada en el lenguaje. Su aparato teórico articula la formación ideológica, que determina a la formación discursiva, y la relación asimétrica entre el interdiscurso (memoria del antagonismo) y el intradiscurso (el hilo del decir). El sujeto es un efecto de la interpelación ideológica, constituido a través de mecanismos como el preconstruido, que presenta como evidencia lo que es producto de una relación de fuerzas. El fin de su análisis es desvelar la contradicción y la sujeción ideológica. Por otro lado, la obra de Marc Angenot se centra en el discurso social: la totalidad de lo decible en una sociedad. Su concepto clave es la hegemonía discursiva, un sistema regulador global y anónimo que, a través de la tópica y la doxa (presupuestos y creencias compartidas), garantiza la cohesión y la interlegibilidad de todos los discursos, incluso los antagónicos. Su enfoque no es la determinación, sino la regulación; no la contradicción, sino la coherencia. El artículo concluye que Pêcheux ofrece herramientas para analizar el conflicto, mientras Angenot permite comprender el consenso y la cohesión social. Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humanidades 2025-12-18 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/nea/article/view/8903 10.30972/nea.738903 Ñeatá; Vol. 7 Núm. 3 (2025); 1-14 2718-7268 spa https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/nea/article/view/8903/8598 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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This paper presents a comparative analysis of Michel Pêcheux’s and Marc Angenot’s discourse theories by arguing that the main difference between them lies on the shift from a vertical determination model rooted on class antagonism to a horizontal regulation system operating on the totality of social discursivity.
Indebted to Althusserian Marxism, Pêcheux’s framework understands discourse as the effect of class struggle materialized in language. Its theoretical apparatus articulates the ideological formation, which determines the discursive formation, with the asymmetrical relationship between interdiscourse (the memory of antagonism) and intradiscourse (the thread of speech). The subject is an effect of the ideological interpellation constituted through mechanisms like the preconstructed, which presents the product of the forces’ relation as its evidence. Pêcheux’s analysis aims to unveil contradiction and ideological subjection.
Conversely, Marc Angenot focuses on social discourse: the totality of the utterable in a society. His key concept is the idea of discursive hegemony, which is a global anonymous regulating system that, through the topos and doxa (shared presuppositions and beliefs), guarantees the cohesion and inter-legibility of all discourses, even antagonistic ones. His focus lies not on determination, but on regulation; not on contradiction, but on coherence. In sum, the exploration concludes that Pêcheux offers tools to analyze conflict, while Angenot provides a framework for understanding consensus and social cohesion. |
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