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Émile Benveniste
Overview
Émile Benveniste (French: [emil bɛ̃venist]; 27 May 1902 – 3 October 1976) was an Ottoman-born French structural linguist and semiotician. He is best known for his work on Indo-European languages and his critical reformulation of the linguistic paradigm established by Ferdinand de Saussure.
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The same diffusion over the Earth's surface which has led to the differentiation of the race, has simultaneously led to a differentiation of their speech: a truth which we see further illustrated in each nation by the peculiarities of dialect found in several districts. Thus the progress of Language conforms to the general law, alike in the evolution of languages, in the evolution of families of words, and in the…
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
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Despite the great wealth of words which European languages possess, the thinker finds himself often at a loss for an expression exactly suited to his conception, for want of which he is unable to make himself intelligible either to others or to himself. To coin new words is a pretension to legislation in language which is seldom successful; and, before recourse is taken to so desperate an expedient, it is advisable…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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In the later analysis of language, we trace the opposite and contrasted elements of the individual and nation, of the past and present, of the inward and outward, of the subject and object, of the notional and relational, of the root or unchanging part of the word and of the changing inflexion, if such a distinction be admitted, of the vowel and the consonant, of quantity and accent, of speech and writing, of poetry…
Plato, Cratylus
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Philosophers who discussed Émile Benveniste
Related ideas
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Indo-European languages
- Ashkenazi Jews
- Aleppo
- Roland Barthes
- Paradigm
- Aphasia
- Ottoman Empire
- Linguistics
- Paris
- Structuralism
- Semiotics
- Collège de France
- Giorgio Agamben
- Vilnius
- British Raj
- Jacques Derrida
- Sign (semiotics)
- Antoine Meillet
- Signified and signifier
Place in the tradition
Part of Structuralism.