单词 | différance |
释义 | différancen. Philosophy and Literary Theory. In the philosophy of Jacques Derrida: the impossibility of any sign within a system of signs having a fixed meaning; the process by which meaning is endlessly deferred from one sign to another within such a system.In contrast with Saussurean linguistics, which proposes that the meaning of any sign derives from its place in a system of differences or contrasts within a network of possible choices, Derrida argues that any given sign can refer only to other signs, with any ultimately determined meaning being indefinitely deferred by this continual reference to an endless sequence of other signs. ΚΠ 1968 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Feb. 153/2 There must preexist the notion of a trace, giving at the same time an intimation of sameness and difference, and which he calls différance. 1987 M. 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. 2003 J. 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1968 |
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