Émile Benveniste, the theoretician of sense

Abstract

Overview of main topics in the works of Émile Benveniste, specially of his criticism of the arbitrariness of linguistic sign, his theory of "énonciation" and his theory of two linguistics - semiotics and semantics.

Keywords

• Émile Benveniste
• énonciation
• arbitrariness of linguistic sign
• semiotics
• semantics