The Texts a Text Hides...

Abstract

Reading and writing are interactive activities, since the writer does it with a purpose: to say something to someone, their interlocutor, with an intention, in a certain way, in a given situation. Text as speech textualization is a co-constructed activity, the effect of meanings between interlocutors. In the interactionist conception, textual production presupposes an interior content that projects itself outwards through expression. What do we have then? A subject, with his conscience, his intentions, his impulses and his tastes, who, intending to externalize his speech, his saying, becomes an author. And the text, the said, is, therefore, the bridge that allows the reader - his interlocutor - to have access to the discourse and the subject who produced it. Author and reader are endowed with a discursive memory present in the process of production and reading of the text, an interpretive event that already contains sayings that underlie or are implicit in it, highlighting interdiscursivity / intertextuality. From this perspective, the same text admits the possibility of many readings. As the construction of meaning is made in the author-reader interaction through the text, the reader is raised to the author status - coauthor or coenunciator - of the new text produced with reading.