Deconstruction Critical Theory

Deconstruction critical theory tries to break down mental constructs that influence the reader of the artifact. Deconstruction theorist exposed assumptions that structuralism focuses on like: every individual text reflects a larger structural system, structural systems are also reflected in language itself,  meaning comes in relation to other signs, language constitutes our reality etc. Deconstruction theorist do believe that language shapes the world or constitutes it, but they dive deeper into that ideal and wonder what that truly means. J. Hillis Miller claims that “deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself”.  Jacque Derrida believes that language has no center. There is no fixed to anchor language. Structuralists view text as if it is “logocentric”.  Deconstruction critical theorist focus on the “slipperynature of language. Language is not stable.  Language has ambiguities or puns that possess double-meanings. Deconstruction critics believed that exposes ambiguity inherent in languages. The theorist aim to expose how privilege hierarchies are not “natural” but rather constructed by language and our assumptions. Deconstruction critics ask what is the expressed purpose, and what binaries inside the text are created to set up and support the structure.