What both Derrida and de Man say about the difference when one thinks of language coming into being, from thinking about all those other things coming into being, is that language does not purport to stand outside of itself.

德里达和德曼都说的不同点,当一个人从其它所有事情的形成，想到语言的形成时，这个不同点是说语言并不会意图去站在它本身之外。

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And it doesn't actually work in court or that doesn't actually purport to be a law firm,

你不会在法院内工作，那些机构也和律师事务所不相关，

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Whereas most utterances purport to be saying something true about the actual state of things in the world, literary utterance is under no such obligation, the argument goes, and ought properly to be understood as fiction making it up as opposed to referring.

大多数言辞都是对事物的真实状况的,真实反映，而这种观点认为，文学没有这个义务，应该把文学理解为小说,它是虚构而不是实指。

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