Talk:Différance

message: Différance may be a pun in French, but shouldn't the reader get something to explain the apparent solipsism in spelling? --Wetman 06:51, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not at all sure what you mean by "solipsism" here. I agree, if this is your meaning, that it might be best for the article to explain in more detail why the word is typically left untranslated when the English coinage "differance" seems so similar.  (There are two main reasons: one is the French homonym meaning "deferring" as well as "differing," a double meaning unavailable to the English version of the pun and important in Derrida's work; the second is that early translations did it this way, and later ones have followed their lead for consistency.)  -- Rbellin|Talk 07:17, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think he means "solecism". Epic fail. 24.36.22.201 16:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Gee, finally someone has precisely expressed how I always feel whenever I read poststructuralist writing!! 198.59.188.232 21:03, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pun in French 

message: For an outsider to the deconstruction of linguistics, this definition of differance provides an outstanding clarification of Derrida's meaning. A concise comprehension of Derrida's term, differance, is vital in understanding the nature of poststructuralism. The validity of this definition cannot be weighed without consideration to poststructuralist deconstruction.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.59.88.85 (talk) 05:35, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding revisions to this definition 

message: The example section is neither clear nor helpful--and in some cases comes too close to leading us into a wrong conception. I don't have time now, but I hope someone can revise it--and perhaps also with a non-linguistic example. In general, everything on this page seems too interested in semiotics.
Johnduff (talk) 02:26, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Example" section very bad 

message: Différance is not a neologism.  This is part of the point. Derrida is attacking logocentism, the 'logism' of neologism.  The word différance, with an 'A' being spoken, in logos/speech, is pronounced the exact same as différence, with an 'E.' Différance is a neographism, the change of the 'a' is seen and not heard. Take slang spelling for instance.  Spelling the word "fat" as "phat" is not creating a neologism, but rather it is a neographism.  I am unsure as to whether or not "neographism" itself was coined by Derrida, but it seems likely. 
Maytagman (talk) 17:59, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Derrida can call a tail a leg, but that doesn't make it a leg - David Gerard (talk) 15:44, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neographism not neologism 

message: How is the term pronounced in English -- do most academic users of the word adopt the French pronunciation, or do they make it homophonous with difference in English, just as the two are homophonous in French? We should indicate the pronunciation. --71.111.194.50 (talk) 15:11, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  English pronunciation? 

message: The relationship of deferral to the concept (especially in the current "illustration" section) might be clearer if a note is added about the differences between French and English word order; the "complete meaning" is deferred, certainly, in a language in which most adjectives are placed after what they describe. The deferral is not so thoroughly the case in English because of the difference in grammatical standards.
65.79.1.34 (talk) 16:29, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification of Deferral 

message: Differance and the web of meaning are important and useful concepts and worth knowing, and Derrida hit on something of lots of real world usefulness here. And there's no way you'd ever understand it if you read Derrida's original festering midden of a chapter. I got about as far as the first sentence of the third paragraph before wanting to throw my computer against the wall. So thank you to the many Wikipedians over the years who've explained these concepts in terms that are actually understandable rather than wilfully obscurantist - David Gerard (talk) 15:40, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank you to everyone who has worked on this article 

message: 'In the essay "Différance" Derrida indicates that différance gestures at a number of heterogeneous features that govern the production of textual meaning.'
What does "gestures at" mean? Does something this obscure belong in this encyclopaedia?
Paul Murray (talk) 03:20, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  gestures at