The subject is positioned by and within discourse, not the source of it

Evidence

You can only say something by positioning yourself in the discourse. The tale tells the teller, the myth tells the myth-maker. The enunciation is always from some subject who is positioned by and in discourse. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills Saussurean linguistics’ point about how enunciation positions the speaking subject — the key mechanism for the construction of subjectivity Hall is building toward.
• XREF: Connects directly to Foucauldian discourse theory and Althusserian interpellation, both foundational for Islamophobia scholarship on how the ‘other’ is constituted in discourse. — connects to: Subjectivity forms through practice, not prior to it. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 85