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de⋅con⋅struc⋅tion

   [dee-kuhn-struhk-shuhn]
–noun
a philosophical and critical movement, starting in the 1960s and esp. applied to the study of literature, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality and emphasizes that a text has no stable reference or identification because words essentially only refer to other words and therefore a reader must approach a text by eliminating any metaphysical or ethnocentric assumptions through an active role of defining meaning, sometimes by a reliance on new word construction, etymology, puns, and other word play.
Origin:
de- + construction
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de·con·struc·tion     (dē'kən-strŭk'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A philosophical movement and theory of literary criticism that questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth; asserts that words can only refer to other words; and attempts to demonstrate how statements about any text subvert their own meanings: "In deconstruction, the critic claims there is no meaning to be found in the actual text, but only in the various, often mutually irreconcilable, 'virtual texts' constructed by readers in their search for meaning" (Rebecca Goldstein).
de'con·struc'tive adj., de'con·struc'tion·ism n., de'con·struc'tion·ist n. & adj.
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