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Deconstruction Although in popular use a term synonymous with “destruc tion” or “debunking,” deconstruction also has a more precise, if highly complex, reference. As used in literary criticism, philosophy, and more recently, legal studies, it focuses on the inherent, internal contradictions in language and inter pretation. As formulated by the French thinker Jacques Derrida, deconstruc tion is a fundamental critique of certain intellectual assumptions that underlie Western thinking.

(QUINN, 2006 p 110)

Logocentric : Against the logocentric conception Derrida argues that meaning is not generated by some extralinguistic presence, but by absence—that is, by the dif ferences between one word and another. Thus it is difference (not the traditional “identity” of the word and its object) that distinguishes language. In other words, language is rooted not in a positive relation of words to the world but instead in a relation of differences of one element to the other 

(QUINN, 2006 p 110)

   Differance : Central to this method is Derrida’s concept of différance, a word he coins to distinguish it from simple différence (difference). Derrida employs the word in both senses of the French verb différer, which means both to differ and to defer. The sense of “differ” in the term refers to Saussure’s view that the meaning of words is a function of differences and that these differences are “negative,” that is, distinguished by what they are not. The sense of defer applies to the belief that meaning is never really present but always deferred because the “meaning” is simply more words leading to a cycle of words about words.