@inbook{80a8c54bae304c8f9092ca1db0ba8883,
title = "Benveniste and the Periperformative Structure of the Pragmeme",
abstract = "In his attempt to impose a counterintuitive binary on the “personal” pronouns—arguing that the first and second persons “personalize” and the third person “depersonalizes”—{\'E}mile Benveniste creates a cognitive dissonance that drives us to consider a startling observation: that there is a virtual third person that haunts the first and second persons as a “witness” to the performative interactions between the “I” and the “you.” This chapter draws on Eve Sedgwick{\textquoteright}s (Touching feeling: affect, pedagogy, performativity. Duke University Press, Durham, 2003) notion of the “periperformative” to explore the “I-you-they” structure of the pragmeme.",
keywords = "Benveniste, I, Periperformative, Pronouns, Sedgwick, They, You",
author = "Douglas Robinson",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-43491-9_5",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319434902",
series = "Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology",
publisher = "Springer Cham",
pages = "85--104",
editor = "Keith Allan and Alessandro Capone and Istvan Kecskes",
booktitle = "Pragmemes and Theories of Language Use",
edition = "1st",
}