deconstructing in English

verb

1

analyze (a text or a linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction, typically in order to expose its hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and subvert its apparent significance or unity.

Deconstructing the novel becomes a metaphor for deconstructing Western metaphysics.

Use "deconstructing" in a sentence

1. Deconstructing Comprehensibility: Identifying the linguistic influences on listeners’ L2 Comprehensibility ratings

2. I spent two years deconstructing dozens of ancient languages... to their roots.

3. 9 Thus it is important to analyse these processes as well as deconstructing them.

4. Shafar found that by deconstructing the Agal, it can be used as a pure expression of art

5. At the risk of Belaboring the obvious by deconstructing humor, we’ll point out that the basic premise of the joke doesn’t ring true

6. Deconstructing perspective with Picasso and peers Pioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism was the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century

7. 8 Chavez, however,(www.Sentencedict.com) recognizes the pressures on him to make the leap from deconstructing the past to building new economic realities.

8. And then there was the capricious, irreverent genius of Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, announcing the death of a traditional narrative, a voice Brashly deconstructing ideas of lineage and legacy

9. 30 In view of fact that both the Inquisitional System and the Adversary System are products of deliberate design, plans of constructivist rationalism are doomed to self-deconstructing.

10. Tonya Foster takes on the question of form itself in “Touching Authenticities” by deconstructing the essay, which strikes me as a necessary gesture given that she is tending to the question of the “authentic.” The world of the “natural” is laid bare, interrogated, and destabilized in Foster’s piece, as is “origin,” which begs