Le mot a toujours le sens très concret d’une « membrure ». (Martineau  )

JOINTEDNESS is a characterization of the kind of structure produced in the process of articulating Dasein  ’s disclosure of the world. A jointed structure is one that has constituent parts with an identity and function that can be understood only in relation to a systematic or more original whole to which they belong.

Jointedness (Gliederung  ) is one of several terms Heidegger uses in Being and Time   to describe features of the transformation of indeterminate background meaning or sense (Sinn  ) into distinct or delimited meanings (Bedeutungen) capable of being marked by an expression. The term “jointedness” and cognates are closely connected with the notion of “articulation” (Artikulation) in both standard German and Heidegger’s own more technical use. However, in one key passage defining discourse (Rede  ) Heidegger uses these two terms to make a significant distinction: “intelligibility is also always-already jointed [gegliedert] before appropriating interpretation  . Discourse is the articulation [Artikulation] of intelligibility” (SZ 161). Although he elsewhere also links articulation with interpretation (see Articulation), this passage states that Dasein’s disclosure has an articulate structure, or jointedness, prior to the process of articulation in “appropriating interpretation.” [CHL  ]

articulation [EtreTemps]

NT: Gliederung : articulation. — Le mot a toujours le sens très concret d’une « membrure ». [EtreTemps]