Pierre-Yves Testenoire

List of John Benjamins publications for which Pierre-Yves Testenoire plays a role.

This paper focuses on Roman Jakobson’s general linguistics lectures in New York during World War II. These courses, that Claude Lévi-Strauss attended, have played a major role in the spreading of post-war “generalized structuralism”. However, they only came to be known by the later testimonies of… read more
Testenoire, Pierre-Yves 2023 Aux origines du Cercle linguistique de New YorkHistoriographia Linguistica 50:2/3, pp. 268–292 | Article
Le Cercle linguistique de New York est créé en 1943 dans le contexte de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cet article porte sur les débuts de cette société savante avant la parution du premier numéro de sa revue, Word. On reconstitue à partir de sources inédites les premières années du Cercle sous ses… read more
Since the sixties, Ferdinand de Saussure has often been compared with Stéphane Mallarmé. The purpose of this study is to identify whether this association Saussure/Mallarmé is really justified from a historical point of view. First, we examine the biographical links between the Genevan linguist… read more
This article focuses on the connections between Roman Jakobson’s and Ferdinand de Saussure’s ideas about poetics. It questions the readings of the Saussurian anagrams proposed by Jakobson. It shows that, if the approaches of poetry proposed by the two linguists present undeniable similarities,… read more