L'homme dans la langue

traditions saussurienne et développements phénoménologiques

Marina De Palo

Sapienza Università di Roma

pp. 113-128

in: Emilie Aussant, Jean-Michel Fortis (eds), History of linguistics 2017, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2020

Abstract

This paper aims to propose some considerations about the European Saussurean tradition focusing on the relation between man and language. It will be argued that, against the current interpretation of Saussure as a promoter of the linguistique de la langue, his notes on the speaker’s judgement about the language and on metalanguage, show a very complex thought. This fact finds important developments in Karl Bühler’s and Émile Benveniste’s theories and in their connections with Hendrik J. Pos’ and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.

Cited authors

Pos Hendrik

Merleau-Ponty Maurice

Bühler Karl

de Saussure Ferdinand

Benveniste Émile