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deconstruction
[ dee-kuhn-struhk-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or practice of breaking something down into constituent parts:
The deconstruction of complex problems into smaller issues can make them easier to tackle.
- a philosophical and critical movement that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or meaning.
- a critical movement that questions forms, hierarchies, and assumptions that are thought to be fixed because of the language traditionally used to describe those forms, hierarchies, and assumptions.
deconstruction
/ ˌ徱ːəˈٰʌʃə /
noun
- a technique of literary analysis that regards meaning as resulting from the differences between words rather than their reference to the things they stand for. Different meanings are discovered by taking apart the structure of the language used and exposing the assumption that words have a fixed reference point beyond themselves
Derived Forms
- ˌDzˈٰܳپDzԾ, nounadjective
Other yvlogs From
- ·Dz·ٰܳ·پ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of deconstruction1
Example Sentences
Insights’ rambling, overly long deconstruction of my columna caused some people to conclude it was downplaying the KKK’s awfulness.
This is what we are witnessing—the firing of the federal workforce and the deconstruction of the administrative state.
The process of "careful and sensitive progressive deconstruction" will take place behind the tower's wrapping, it added.
But it was part of the slow burn of my rebellion, of a deconstruction of the woman I’d been conditioned to be.
In his speech on the crisis of men, Josh Hawley warned of a plot to “deconstruct America,” a “leftist project” that “depends on the deconstruction of American men.”
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