However, Nietzsche viewed these mental and linguistic efforts as being entirely arbitrary and not accurately reflective of reality. Jacque Derrida is the contemporary postmodern writer most commonly associated with similar assertions in connection with his rigorous critique of what he terms Western logocentrism. Derrida and other postmodern writers emphasize the symbolic nature of language. Language is not reality but only re-presents it. However those who use language tend to equate it with reality.
Paradigms exist to exercise power.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People . Her paradigm leads her to expect certain verbiage. That is her mindset. One of the concepts associated with postmodernity is that these paradigms can be used to exercise power over others. The postmodern thinker most associated with this strand of postmodern reflection is the late Michel Foucault.