Parolization and linguistics of saying

Parolization, a term coined by Jürgen Trabant following Eugenio Coseriu’s guidelines, consists in the actualization of a text –seen as Ferdinand de Saussure’s langue– in reading or interpretation –seen as parole. This paper argues that parolization could be better understood if considered as an act of knowing, saying and speaking, that is, as the object of Linguistics of Saying. Aspects of this phenomenon are discussed and exemplified with literary texts (the Odissey, the Divine Comedy, La Celestina, the Cantar de Mío Cid, Rubén Darío’s Prosas profanas and Antonio Machado’s Soledades and Campos de Castilla).