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Signature Event Context Jacques Derrida from MARGINS of Philosophy Translated, with Additional Notes by Alan Bass The University of Chicago Press, 1982 A commication to the Congres international des Societes de philosophie de langue fa ncaise, Montreal, August 1971. The theme of the colloquium was Communication. --309-- Still confining ourselves, for simplicity, to spoken utterance. Austin, How to Do Things with Words , p.ll3n.2. Is it certain that there corresponds to the word communication a unique, univocal concept, a concept that can be rigorously grasped and transmitted: a communicable concept? Following a strange figure of discourse, one first must ask whether the word or signifier communication communicates a determined content, an identifiable meaning, a describable value. But in order to articulate and to propose this question, I already had to anticipate the meaning of the word communication: I have had to predetermine communication as the vehicle, transport, or site of passage of a meaning, and of a meaning that is one. If communication had several meanings , and if this plurality could not be reduced, then from the outset it would not be justified to define communication itself as the transmission of a meaning, assuming that we are capable of understanding one another as concerns each of these words (transmission, meaning, etc.) . Now, the word communication, which nothing initially authorizes us to overlook as a word, and to impoverish as a polysemic word, opens a semantic field which precisely is not limited to semantics, semiotics, and even less to linguistics. To the semantic field of the word communication belongs the fact that it also designates nonsemantic movements . Here at least provisional recourse to ordinary language and to the equivocalities of natural