ABSTRACT
In Chapter 4, I showed how rather standard notions in corpus linguistics render problematic a number of Derrida’s conceptions of language. However, this does not mean, as I shall show, that Derrida’s ideas about language, together with his reading strategies, are not worth appropriating for the following: stimulating an alternative approach to deconstructive analysis – one which can be trained on public sphere arguments. In this chapter, the reader will see most of the Derridean themes and strategies I listed at the end of Chapter 3 recontextualised for different ends. Other Derridean themes and strategies will be recontextualised in later chapters.
