A linguistics of man’s functions in language
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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2023.v19n2a61609Keywords:
Émile Benveniste, função, antropologia da linguagem.Abstract
The hypothesis of this article is that Émile Benveniste’s linguistics can be read as a linguistics of functions. Those functions are understood as anthropological universals situated in the language level, within which man always occupies a place whenever he speaks. To present and support this hypothesis, we initially discuss briefly the presence of the notion of function in linguistics. Next, we present a survey of the use of the term and the concept in the two volumes of Problems in general linguistics, demonstrating the various meanings that the term function holds in his work. Finally, we introduce a specific notion of function as an anthropological universal based on a reading of the article “The Relations of Time in the French Verb.”
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