Saussure, Benveniste and Greimas

Some considerations about “I” and “you”

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Abstract

In this paper we collect conceptions of three linguists – Ferdinand de Saussure, Émile Benveniste and Algirdas Julius Greimas – around the items “I” and “you”. Such elements are called “deictic”, because they depend on the context of utterance to be interpreted. We do not find in the Course of General Linguistics considerations about them. We note, however, that Saussure think is relevant to study contextual influence in language. For Benveniste, it is inconceivable occur enunciation without establish an “I” and a “you”. Finally, Greimas, extending Benveniste’s conceptions, affirms that it is possible to erase marks of person in some texts that he called “enuncives”.
Keywords: Structure. Enunciation. Semiotics. “I-you”. Deictics.

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Dener Gabriel Ferrari, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná Câmpus Pato Branco

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Lovania Roehrig Teixeira, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Câmpus de Aquidauana

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Published

2020-07-20

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Ferrari, D. G., & Teixeira, L. R. (2020). Saussure, Benveniste and Greimas: Some considerations about “I” and “you”. Todas As Letras - Revista De Língua E Literatura, 22(2), 1–15. Retrieved from http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/tl/article/view/12344

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2020): Todas as Letras

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Language and Linguistics

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