Editors’ Acknowledgments; Biographical Timeline; Translator’s Introduction, John E. Joseph; Preface: Émile Benveniste, a linguist who neither says nor hides, but signifies, Julia Kristeva; Editor’s Introduction, Jean-Claude Coquet and Irène Fenoglio; Chapter One: Semiology; Chapter Two: Languages and Writing; Chapter Three: Final Lecture, Final Notes; Annex 1: Bio-bibliography of Émile Benveniste, Georges Redard; Annex 2: The Émile Benveniste Papers, Émilie Brunet; Afterword: Émile Benveniste, a scholar’s fate, Tzvetan Todorov; Index