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Deconstruction, on the contrary, starts out by rigorously suspending this assumed correspondence between mind, meaning and the concept of method which claims to unite them.

It is not a question, he repeats, of rejecting the entire Saussurian project or denying its historical significance

the 'diachronic' methods of historical research and speculation which had dominated nineteenth-century linguistics

Language is in this sense diacritical, or dependent on a structured economy of differences which allows a relatively small range of linguistic elements to signify a vast repertoire of negotiable meanings

what de Man calls the 'dialectical interplay' set up between text and interpreter