Reference:
Review Excerpts 'There is no purely and rigorously phonetic writing. So-called
phonetic writing, by all rights and in principle, and not only due to an
empirical or technical insufficiency, can function only by admitting into its
system nonphonetic "signs" (punctuation, spacing, etc.)' (121).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | empirical |
function |
system |
writing |
'Whether we take the signified or the signifier, language has neither
ideas nor sounds that existed before the linguistic system, but only
conceptual and phonic differences that have issued from the system.
The idea or phonic substance that a sign contains is of less importance
than the other signs that surround it' (125).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | idea | language |
sign |
signified |
signifier |
substance |
system |
'We will designate as differance the movement according to which
language, or any code, any system of referral in general, is constituted
"historically" as a weave of differences' (126).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | code | differance |
language |
system |
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