Benveniste

" I can only be defined by the instance of discourse that contains it and by that alone. It has no value except in the instance in which it is produced. But in the same way it is also as an instance of form thatI must be taken; the form ofI has no linguistic existence except in the act of speaking in which it is uttered."

-Emile Benveniste- The Nature of Pronouns

This lexia certainly is a product of the act of writing. So who am I then ? Is this "I" just an abstract of the person who I am right now, at the very moment I am typing this ?
Most important, does it matter ? Would you read this in a different way ?


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