
Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "A Thousand Plateaus" (Part 2/4)
Theory & Philosophy
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The Abstract Machine of Language
There are constants, or universals, of language that enable us to define it as a homogeneous system. So they are the phonological by communicacativity, the syntactical and the semantic. The third one is the trees, or linguistic trees, linking constant to one another with b ay relations between trees. And in number six, finally, synchrony, which erects an in itself and for itself of language that is now kind of indifferent to other things,. It just floats above everything else, essentially.
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