How to treat linguistics in the Encyclopédie The role of César Chesneau Du Marsais

In Du Marsais’s affirmation that metaphor is the predominant figure in linguistic invention, we find the idea of “poetic logic,” which Vico discusses, but also the Bakhtinian conception of the relation between “everyday speech” and “poetic speech.” We can consider Du Marsais more as a philosopher of language than as a linguist or grammarian, as he is generally classified.