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Linguistic Person

Emile Benveniste EN

The treatment of categories such as 'I/you/he' as structures that constitute the subject and the addressee within language.

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The treatment of categories such as 'I/you/he' as structures that constitute the subject and the addressee within language. While 'I' and 'you' establish a specific symmetrical-asymmetrical relation along the I–you axis, 'he/she' often represents a position distanced from subjects, typically at the level of narrative and récit. This theory of person provides the grammatical basis for the distinction between enunciation and narrative (discours/récit).