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“On the elementary level it has in effect a threefold “uttering�� function: it is a process of appropriation of the topographic system by the pedestrian (just as the speaker appropriates and assumes language); it is a spatial realization of the site (just as the act of speaking is a sonic realization of language); lastly, it implies relationships among distinct positions, i.e. pragmatic “contracts�� in the form of movements (just as verbal utterance is “allocution��, “places the others�� before the speaker, and sets up contracts between fellow speakers. A first definition of walking thus seems to be a space of uttering.”