LINGUISTIC AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON EPONIMY: FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE AND THE THEORY OF HYPOGRAMS
LINGUISTIC AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON EPONIMY: FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE AND THE THEORY OF HYPOGRAMS

Summary/Abstract: Eponymy (from epi = “on, above” and onoma = “name”) was extensively studied by F. de Saussure, his records being edited together with J. Starobinski’s adequate commentary, in the book Les mots sur les mots, 1956, from which many linguistics and cultural anthropology studies derived. F. de Saussure analyzes the Latin saturnine verses but also numerous fragments from Lucretius’ “De rerum natura”, arriving at the conclusion that repeating twice some graphic (phonetic) sequences is a technical strategy of the Latin “poeta vates”. Starting with this study, the academic world has been speaking about poietics, something different of poetics: while the consecrated term reflects a conception about the art of poetry, poietics, coming from the Greek poeio, “to do”, makes reference to this technique of committing eponymical repetitions, very well mastered by “poeta vates”.

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