Abstract
Because of its figural or rhetorical component, language cannot be a reliable medium for stating truth. Rhetoric continually undermines the abstract systems of grammar and logic and any attempt to fix a connection between the book and the world is futile. Regarding the metaphoricity of language, this article tries to prove that how the critic’s search for meaning is defied by the difference between what is meant and what is said which is a de Man’s focal point. To have a correct misreading, we have to allow language express itself in its full multiplicity, taking as many possible significations as it can and as many various contradictory direction that it heads toward. There is no authoritative, authentic voice in a text. Each is as helpless and baseless as any other. The text dismantles itself. It annihilates the ground on which it stands.
Highlights
What is deconstruction? That is the question this article tries to deal with and at the same time shows that how the metonymic language is basically metaphoric and since any literary text is expressed via language, it is deconstructed when its brick taken out
That is exactly what deconstruction seeks to refuse. Any such enquiry is mediated by language, it is done through language, it needs, first of all, a firm belief in the transparency of language, of the possibility of a unified, coherent meaning communicated through words and grammatical relations, and the immunity of language to paradoxical signification, while, the most important building block in the structure of deconstruction is its refusal to give language such a privilege
It refuses to admit to the communicative power of language
Summary
What is deconstruction? That is the question this article tries to deal with and at the same time shows that how the metonymic language is basically metaphoric and since any literary text is expressed via language, it is deconstructed when its brick taken out. Praising their Painstaking work in their meticulous engagement with language and more exactly with definition of words, he quotes their definition of deconstruction which later on proves to be the loose brick he has found in the structure of the dictionary to make its whole fabric collapse. 4) A thinker with a method" Royle quotes Beardsworth "has already decided how to proceed."(ibid) Disappointed with this definition he looks for a new one He finds it in the Oxford English Dictionary: Deconstruction [f.DE+CONSTRUCTION]. It does not limit deconstruction only to literary texts, but expands its domain to include philosophy as well
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