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Problèmes de linguistique générale, 1
"Ces études apportent dans leur ensemble, et chacune pour soi, une contribution à la grande problématique du langage qui s'énonce dans les principaux thèmes traités : on y envisage les relations entre le biologique et le culturel, entre la subjectivité et la socialité, entre le signe et l'objet, entre le symbole et la pensée, et aussi les problèmes de l'analyse intralinguistique." E. Benveniste.
356 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1966
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Émile Benveniste
63 books23 followersÉmile Benveniste (French: [bɛ̃venist]; 27 March 1902 – 3 October 1976) was a 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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September 24, 2017
J'avais étudié ce classique de la linguistique sur les bancs de l'université, et je l'ai relu cet été.
Les chapitres I, (sur la discrimination comme moteur de croissance d'une langue) II (sur le langage comme système de représentation du réel) et IV (sur ce qu'est le signe linguistique) sont particulièrement percutants.
Les chapitres I, (sur la discrimination comme moteur de croissance d'une langue) II (sur le langage comme système de représentation du réel) et IV (sur ce qu'est le signe linguistique) sont particulièrement percutants.
May 14, 2017
Una hermosa lectura (por partes) sobre lingüística
February 5, 2024
j’ai pas lu le livre entier, alas
Na primas lingvistikos kurinys, kuri esu perskaites, siaip labai daug idomiu ideju, daug sasaju su kalbu ir tiesos temomis filosofijoj! Labai palyginus su kitais lingvistikos opusais legvqi ikandama knygele, tad rekomenduoju :P
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Na primas lingvistikos kurinys, kuri esu perskaites, siaip labai daug idomiu ideju, daug sasaju su kalbu ir tiesos temomis filosofijoj! Labai palyginus su kitais lingvistikos opusais legvqi ikandama knygele, tad rekomenduoju :P
P.S reik ir antra toma perskaityt…
July 18, 2015
Una de las tantas Biblias del estudiante de Letras ♥
February 5, 2023
Although linguistics is a field that has not seen the necessary value in our country, it has become a branch of research and development that plays a very active role even at the point of reading the future of societies in terms of its content and structure.
Due to its linguistic structure, it has a philosophical stance and instead of naming, classifying, judging, destroying, it processes by taking information by putting it on and not judging. For this reason, linguistics, which has acquired a fairly broad structure, has become an indispensable field for humanity and brings with it various problems related to the content of the book.
He continues his research and thinking activities in a very wide field, from the language of animals to the language of nature, from human speech and the variety of these conversations to colors, signs, and even body language. Thanks to this feature, it is distinguished from philology. It should not be confused.
While Benveniste deals with this multifaceted structure of linguistics, he then addresses the structural problems of this wide-ranging phenomenon. Especially with the changeability rule, our author says that just doing his research without making any judgments, that is, caring about asking like philosophy, is a benefit as well as a problem.
While addressing its structural problems, on the other hand, it also reveals the problems in its relations with the subsidiary branches. For example, it describes the fact that clear determinations cannot be made on human, nature or animal behavior and psychology based on a lot of data obtained. I think it is important how we interpret linguistics at this point. Taking free thinking as a data source as a basis is actually a problem. It is necessary to look at linguistics, literature, psychology, semiotics, history and many other branches of science that I did not think of, it does not feed on them, it feeds on them. Because its structure has a structure that creates a huge space of freedom, such as philosophy. However, I can say that our author chose to evaluate the glass from the empty part.
It may also sound a little boring as a content. However, I would say that linguistics, which sheds light on many points about life and the universe, is very important because of its subject matter, and there are partially subjective assessments at the point of addressing problems.
Due to its linguistic structure, it has a philosophical stance and instead of naming, classifying, judging, destroying, it processes by taking information by putting it on and not judging. For this reason, linguistics, which has acquired a fairly broad structure, has become an indispensable field for humanity and brings with it various problems related to the content of the book.
He continues his research and thinking activities in a very wide field, from the language of animals to the language of nature, from human speech and the variety of these conversations to colors, signs, and even body language. Thanks to this feature, it is distinguished from philology. It should not be confused.
While Benveniste deals with this multifaceted structure of linguistics, he then addresses the structural problems of this wide-ranging phenomenon. Especially with the changeability rule, our author says that just doing his research without making any judgments, that is, caring about asking like philosophy, is a benefit as well as a problem.
While addressing its structural problems, on the other hand, it also reveals the problems in its relations with the subsidiary branches. For example, it describes the fact that clear determinations cannot be made on human, nature or animal behavior and psychology based on a lot of data obtained. I think it is important how we interpret linguistics at this point. Taking free thinking as a data source as a basis is actually a problem. It is necessary to look at linguistics, literature, psychology, semiotics, history and many other branches of science that I did not think of, it does not feed on them, it feeds on them. Because its structure has a structure that creates a huge space of freedom, such as philosophy. However, I can say that our author chose to evaluate the glass from the empty part.
It may also sound a little boring as a content. However, I would say that linguistics, which sheds light on many points about life and the universe, is very important because of its subject matter, and there are partially subjective assessments at the point of addressing problems.
December 19, 2021
Un libro magnífico que abre al lector, de forma introductoria, a la complejidad del lenguaje, bien se leerá en el libro "el lenguaje es lo más paradójico que hay en el mundo, y pobres quienes no lo noten". Asienta el problema de la significación, para que sea entre la lingüística y la psicología las que den respuestas.
Did not finish
August 24, 2021DNF cause idk why i keep reading these books thinking i’ll have a brain big enough to understand and enjoy them🤨 it’s very interesting and i’ll come back to it when i’ve learned more about linguistics but i could not bring myself to read 10 pages and be exhausted afterwards 🤚
December 26, 2023
Ensayos que resumen los principales puntos de estudio potenciales en la lingüística, aspectos todavía no lo suficientemente estudiados, pero con la información suficiente para reflexionar al respecto.
January 4, 2015
Mandatory reading for anyone interested in Linguistics.
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