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Language and Human Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Emile Benveniste

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All languages share certain categories of expression which seem to correspond to a constant model. The forms which these categories assume are listed and classified in linguistic description, but their functions become clear only when they are studied in action—in the practice of language and the fabrication of discourse. These categories are fundamental, independent of all cultural determination. They reveal the subjective experience of speakers who establish and situate themselves in and by language. Our effort here will be to clarify two basic and necessarily associated categories of discourse, that of person and that of time.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 13 , Issue 51 , September 1965 , pp. 1 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1 The author has suggested "chronic time" as the most apt translation of the French temps chronique. The expression is a neologism created by the author.