Last Lectures: College De France, 1968 and 1969

Émile Benveniste author John E Joseph translator Jean-Claude Coquet editor Irene Fenoglio editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:30th Nov '19

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Last Lectures: College De France, 1968 and 1969 cover

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 Collge de France on the rue des coles 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.

ISBN: 9781474439916

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208 pages