Émile Benveniste (1902-1976)

Émile Benveniste (1902-1976)

Émile Benveniste (French: [bɛ̃venist])was a French structural linguist and semiotician.

 He is best known for his work on Indo-European languages and

Biography

Benveniste was born in Aleppo,Syria.

Initially studying under Antoine Meillet, a former student of Saussure, at the Sorbonne, he began teaching at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and was elected to the Collège de France a decade later in 1937 as professor of linguistics.

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Émile Benveniste aroused some controversy for challenging the influential Saussurian notion of

Saussure argued that the relationship between the signified and signifier was

Ferdinand de Saussure decided that the linguistic sign is arbitrary. Example: the

Émile Benveniste supposed that the connection between the signifier and the

There is such a close symbiosis between them that the concept of

The publication of his monumental text, Problèmes de linguistique générale or Problems in General

Main ideas

1) Benveniste repudiated behaviourist linguistic interpretations by demonstrating that human

2) The I–you polarity is another important development explored in the

"I signifies "the person who is uttering the present instance of the

You, on the other hand, is defined in this way: "by introducing

These definitions refer to I and you as a category of language and are related

The "third person" represents the unmarked member of the correlation of

As has long been seen, forms like he, him, that, etc.

3)Benveniste saw language itself as a "discursive instance", i.e., fundamentally as

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