deconstructionist
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- adjective
- /ˌdiːkənˈstrʌkʃənɪst/
- Formal
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deconstruccionista
- In our course, we worked toward socially critical analysis through the analytic skills students had developed in feminist, deconstructionist, Marxist, or other theories.
- deconstructionist reading
- deconstructionist and structuralist
- deconstructionist and Marxist
Examples
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You would know nothing about this if you read Derrida, Paul de Man, and other deconstructionist theorists.
Academic text (1999) -
On the one hand, there are the "deconstructionist historians" who are "attentive to the slipperiness of meanings in language."
Academic text (1994) -
Despite recent trends in other areas, there is no such thing as specifically "feminist" or "deconstructionist" logic.
Academic text (1990) -
The impenetrable language of deconstructionist philosophy is just one form of such insulation against external control.
Academic text (1997) -
Also, they could discover that the social statements revealed in deconstructionist art provide a way to understand metaphorical modes of thinking in art.
Academic text (1993) -
Drawing from narratological, feminist, and deconstructionist critical strategies, Carlin explores issues of race, gender, class, and power in Cather's later fiction.
Academic text (1993) -
So a scheme of liberal education that rejects the deconstructionist approach to reading these books presupposes the availability of a competent corps of teachers who do so.
Academic text (1998) -
There are many different approaches to criticism and to teaching literature: historical, linguistic, structuralist, deconstructionist, hermeneutic, heuristic, psychoanalytic.
Academic text (1998) -
But if much of modernism appears hieratic, hypotactical, and formalist, postmodernism strikes us by contrast as playful, paratactical, and deconstructionist.
Academic text (1990) -
The professor adopted a deconstructionist approach to analyze the hidden meanings in the novel.
Synonyms
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Being a careful method of breaking ideas or texts down to show hidden meanings
Relating to the ideas of Jacques Derrida, especially deconstruction
How Deconstructionist
- Specialized
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
deconstructionist = deconstruction (semi-transparent) = de + construction + ist
The formation is regular ('deconstruction' + '-ist'), but 'deconstruction' is an academic term whose precise meaning is not obvious to average learners, so the relation is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Deconstructionist comes from de- ('undo') and construct ('build'), the same root you see in the everyday word construction. So a deconstructionist approach 'takes apart' how a text is built to show that meanings are not fixed.