In this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the “person” word and from Benveniste and Latour’s theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste’s idea that subjectivity is grounded on the “I” and Guillaume’s idea of a primacy of the “he”. Starting from the Iliad and from the semiotic idea of subject, I take side for Guillaume and Latour’s theory: it is the delocutive structure of the “he” which, in language, expresses subjectivity, namely the capacity of the subject to make himself the object of his reflections and of his words.

PAOLUCCI CLAUDIO (2021). Face and Mask: “Person” and “subjectivity” in Language and Through Signs. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW, 35(4), 1257-1274 [10.1007/s11196-021-09838-6].

Face and Mask: “Person” and “subjectivity” in Language and Through Signs

PAOLUCCI CLAUDIO
2021

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In this paper, I will deal with the way linguistics and semiotics focus on person and subjectivity in language. I start from two different meanings of the “person” word and from Benveniste and Latour’s theories of enunciation. Later, I deal with the problem of subjectivity in language and I connect it to two different views: Benveniste’s idea that subjectivity is grounded on the “I” and Guillaume’s idea of a primacy of the “he”. Starting from the Iliad and from the semiotic idea of subject, I take side for Guillaume and Latour’s theory: it is the delocutive structure of the “he” which, in language, expresses subjectivity, namely the capacity of the subject to make himself the object of his reflections and of his words.
2021
PAOLUCCI CLAUDIO (2021). Face and Mask: “Person” and “subjectivity” in Language and Through Signs. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW, 35(4), 1257-1274 [10.1007/s11196-021-09838-6].
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