Full Description
Benveniste's lectures had a shaping influence on a generation of scholars that includes Barthes, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva and Todorov and here, for the first time, these are made available in English for a new generation of linguists and philosophers of language. This book includes the full course of fifteen lectures which Benveniste gave in the Collège de France on the rue des Écoles in Paris between December 1968 and December 1969. Benveniste's work as offered here presents the first serious attempt at reconciling the sign theories of Saussure and Peirce and draws together, language, writing and society into a comprehensive theory of signifying. Benveniste's philosophy of language considers key concepts such as utterance, enunciation, speaker, discourse, subjectivity and as such is central to the areas of discourse analysis, text linguistics, pragmatics, semantics, conversational analysis, stylistics and semiotics.
Contents
Editors' AcknowledgmentsBiographical TimelineTranslator's Introduction, John E. JosephPreface: Émile Benveniste, a linguist who neither says nor hides, but signifies, Julia KristevaEditor's Introduction, Jean-Claude Coquet and Irène FenoglioChapter One: SemiologyChapter Two: Languages and WritingChapter Three: Final Lecture, Final NotesAnnex 1: Bio-bibliography of Émile Benveniste, Georges RedardAnnex 2: The Émile Benveniste Papers, Émilie BrunetAfterword: Émile Benveniste, a scholar's fate, Tzvetan TodorovIndex
