This article offers a discursive approach to the editorial treatment of texts, proposing the notion of editorial genetic rites to designate a series of processes unchained by a sort of professional reading, a language activity that defines a complex place, whose cloudy attributions arise from the dynamics of interlocution. Based on discourse analysis of French tradition, we look for to advance in the understanding of the maneuvers involved on this reading-and-writing activity witch characterizes the preparation of a text to its public circulation.
Discourse; otherness; text revision; editorial genetic rites