The observer actant in the contemporary legal discourse: a semiotic meditationFootnote^*

* A first version of this text was presented at the Instituto de Comunicación e Imagen, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, on 8 August 2018. I am very grateful to José Miguel Labrin, María José Lacalle del Campo, Elizabeth Parra Ortiz, America Jiménez Peñaloza, Sandra Jacqueline Meza Fernandez, Rafael del Villar, and the director of the Institute, María Olivia Mönckeberg, for organizing the event and for their hospitality. I also thank Claudia Lauria, from the Italian Institute of Culture in Santiago, Chile, for having granted the Institute’s patronage to the conference. I also thank Rubén Dittus Benavente for publishing a Spanish version of this text in the Revista chilena de semiótica (10: 37–57, January 2019).

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