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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>JF Delannoy</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>In my view , discourse analysis does not dispute ‘truth’, though some radical deconstructionists, whom <B>I</B> deconstructed in <I>Critical Discourse</I> (1988) did, and have been at times been thrown in. What we ‘analyse’ our the discourse moves of <B>presenting something</B> <B>as absolute truth to impose closure</B>, viz.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. […] <U style="text-underline: words">It is obvious</U> that the new Citroën has fallen from the sky inasmuch as it appears at first sight as a superlative <CITE>object</CITE>; […] <U style="text-underline: words">one can easily see</U> in an object the best messenger of a world above that of nature: at once a perfection and an absence of origin, a closure and a brilliance, a transformation of life into matter… (Barthes <I>The New Citroën</I>, 1957)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>My <I>New Introduction</I> (2004), also on the web, esp. Ch VII, is stuffed with truths which are not allowed to be so; if I travelled around Dumbya’s ‘America’ making them public, I would soon have a one-way ticket to Guatanamo TortureTown as an ‘enemy combatant’ Have a look.</FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: ES; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">RdB</SPAN></DIV></DIV>