What is an author

ある事情から、読み直す。関連する部分の抜き書き。

...... I believe that one could find here an introduction to the historical analysis of discourse. Perhaps it is time to study discourses not only in terms of their expressive value or formal transformations, but according to their modes of existence. The modes of circulation, valorization, attritution, and appropriation of discourses vary with each culture and are modified within each. The manner in which they are articulated according to social relationships can be more readily understood, I believe, in the activity of the author function and in its modifications than in the themes or concepts that discourses set in motion. (Foucault, M., 1969=1984, "What is an author," Rabinow, P. ed., Foucault Reader, Pantheon, p. 117.)

A change in footing implies a change in the alignment we take up to ourselves and the others present as expressed in the way we manage the production or receotion of an utterance. A change in our footing is another way of talking about a change in our frame for events. This paper is largely concerned with pointing out that participants over the course of their speaking constantly change their footing, these changes being a persistent feature of natural talk. ...... It is my belief that the language that students have drawn on for talking about speaking and hearing is not well adapted to its purpose. And I believe this is so both generally and for a consideration of something like footing. It is too gross to provide us with much of a beginning. It takes global folk categories (like speaker and hearer) for granted instead of decomposing them into smaller, analytically coherent elements. (Goffman, E., 1979→1981, "Footing," Forms of Talk, Univesity of Pennsylvania Press., pp. 128f.)

というわけで、いずれも作者の概念を、言葉が得ている存在の仕方との関わりのなかで捉え返しています。
「作者の死」と言いつつ、それがかつて持っていた機能を読者のなかへと移し替えていったかの人とは、視線の置き所が違っていますね、良かれ悪しかれ。

The Foucault Reader

Forms of Talk (Conduct and Communication)