Although Literary Studies benefit from strengthening their ties with Linguistics, the reverse isn’t true. This contributes to the emancipation of this discipline from ordinary positivism, and incites it to redefine its units and to take into account the textual dimension of its empirical objects. This discipline thus revives its ties with philology and hermeneutics, along with the initial project of a nobly auxiliary discipline attached to the reading of texts. This study underlines the theoretical and descriptive stakes of a knowledge so objectivised of literature.