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différance, n. Literary Theory.
Brit. |ˌdɪfɛːˈrɑːns|, |ˌdiːfɛːˈrɒ̃ns|, U.S. |ˌdɪfəˈrɑns|, |ˌdifeɪˈrɑns|
Forms: 19– différance, 19– differance
[‹ French différance (J. Derrida De la Grammatologie (1967) i. i. 38) > v.) + -ance -ance suffix, punningly after the homophone différence difference (compare quot. 1968).]
The impossibility or indefinite deferral of any ultimate or metaphysical signification, on account of the constantly changing and proliferating relationships between the linguistic signs in any sentence or utterance; an instance of this.
1968Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 153/2 M. Derrida..points out that the concept of difference, on which modern linguistics is founded, cannot be primary; there must preexist the notion of a trace, giving at the same time an intimation of sameness and difference, and which he calls différance, a homophonous pun which does convey the spatio-temporal identity of differing and deferring, but which must make conversation difficult in French. 1979MLN 94 816 There is no master name,..there is no lost origin or center. But it does not follow from this..that there is nothing outside of the differance of the linguistic system. 1987M. Bradbury No, not Bloomsbury iv. 312 How..does this double vision of the writer..come about? A simple but not complete answer is that it comes from the difference, or differance, between the public view of authors, and the academic one. 2003J. Lechte Key Contemp. Concepts 59/2 Différance is the inexpressible plurality that is always at work in language understood, as Ferdinand de Saussure..said, as a system of differences. |