Language Deconstruction as a Critique of Logocentrism (J.Derrida)

Abstract

Zh. Derrida confronts Sosiuri’s  structuralist theory about language. The basic premise of lis language theory is that language is dynamic, not static.He discusses the relationship between a sign and a signifier in dynamics, which ultimately merans that it is impossible to speak unequivocally about the exact meaning of a sign. To determine the meqning, we turn to the meanings of other words in the language, then to other meanings to understand that word, and so on indefinitely. Derrida, deconstruction is not a negative operation, but some detailed analysis aimed at understanding how intergrity is achieved in order to restore it. According to Derrida, “logocentrism” is the foundation of language and philosophy, it gives the privilege of oral speech over writing. In deconstructing this banal opposition by deconstruction, Derrida believed that the game between speech and writing was a play on the inside, between the inside and the outside.