Marx and French linguistics, from Antoine Meillet to Émile Benveniste

Pierre-Yves Testenoire is a lecturer in language sciences at Sorbonne University/INSPÉ, Paris. He is a member of the Laboratoire d'histoire des théories linguistiques (UMR 7597). His research focuses on the history of linguistic ideas in the ^20th century. He is particularly interested in the history of Saussurean thought and the relationship between linguistics and poetics. A Saussure specialist, he is the author of the first edition of a major corpus of the linguist's manuscripts on anagrams(Anagrammes homériques, 2013) and a monograph on the subject(Ferdinand de Saussure à la recherche des anagrammes, 2013). He is currently working on an edition of Jakobson's lectures in New York during the Second World War.