Children's writing and their imaginary circulation by the representations of discursive genres

This work aims at discussing children's imaginary circulation through representations of discursive genres. More specifically, this research investigates how the circulation of such representations is shown in the children's projections for one or more of the addressees of their enunciations. The concept of discourse genre proposed by Bakhtin (2000) is adopted. The analysis of these selected children's written enunciations favored a specific and constitutive trait in order to define genre: the fact that the relatively stable types of enunciations have always an address and a direction (BAKHTIN, 2000). Starting from the concepts of addressing and of "other"- the latter one based on Authier-Revuz (1982, 1990) - it is suggested that, in spoken enunciations, individuals need to negociate with others elements (other wordings, other registers, other meanings and also other addressees) which constitute them and whichdetermine the emergence of their produced enunciation. The analysis of the children's enunciations showed that two important and interlinked facts should be observed: the non-univocity and the fluctuation about the addressing of the enunciations.