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Review published In: Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 47:2/3 (2020) ► pp.347–359

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Émile Benveniste. Last Lectures. Collège de France 1968 and 1969. Jean-Claude Coquet & Irène Fenoglio. John E. Joseph. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2019. xii, 183 pp. ISBN 978 1 4744 3990 9 Hb, 978 1 4744 3991 6 Pb, 978 1 4744 3993 0 epub. Scottish ₤ 29.99

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 | K.U. Leuven | F.W.O. Research Foundation – Flanders
Published online: 2 April 2021
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Article outline
  • 1.Benveniste’s “Dernières Leçons”: A tragic Textgeschichte
  • 2.The French connection: The original publication
  • 3.John Joseph’s translation
  • 4.Benveniste transposed into English: Translation issues
  • 5.Remarks and corrections
  • Notes
  • References
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