Sighs, snores, sniffles, burps, sneezes, coughs, gurgles, farts... there are many types of body noises. Their regulation is gradual, both personal – between those we control and those we don't – and collective – they are objects of social acceptance, tolerance, rejection or radical prohibition. Coughing, for example, which is generally acceptable, is no longer acceptable in the context of Covid.We will examine this shifting somatic-language universe in the light of the concepts of phusis and somatic predicate developed by Jean-Claude Coquet's semiotics of instances. We will highlight the fundamental originality of an enunciative and phenomenological theory of language, which is to place the somatic fact and the condition of intersubjectivity at the heart of semiosis. We will analyse the phenomena of the sudden and unexpected irruption of the body upstream of the logos, and its enunciative operations, introducing the concept of proto-clutching, and developing the Aristotelian distinction between intentional meaning (phonè semantikhè) and meaning that is not involved in any enunciative assumption (the somatic non-subject that is nonetheless caught in the clutches of the subject). We will draw on theoretical texts (J.-Cl. Coquet, R. Dorra) and literary texts (L.-F. Céline) to explore this link, which is not merely anecdotal, between reality and enunciation, and to consider the semiotic regimes of their grasp, implying the constitution of specific planes of immanence.