This book, already classic, is the result of a selection of the less technical essays of Émile Benveniste, referring especially to his most important proposals about the most diverse courses of linguistics. In this work of consultation for different generations, his contributions are not limited to the presentation of a historical vision of language or to a summary of the approach of Ferdinand de Saussure, but also reviews concepts such as the “structure” and the levels of linguistic analysis, questions certain pretensions of the “philosophy of language”, investigates how far it can be spoken of “language” in animals, traces the origin of some words omnipresent
“As a whole, and each one on the other hand, these studies contribute to the great problem of language that is expressed in the main topics covered: they consider the relations between the biological and the cultural, bet...read more
