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Table of contents :
The linguistic dialectic --
A Derridean parenthesis --
Formal and institutional representation --
The ostensive --
Linguistics of the ostensive --
The imperative I --
The imperative I --
Elementary forms and grammatical structures --
The fundamental asymmetry of the speech situation --
Imperative dialogue --
Dialectic of the imperative (II) --
Negation as predication: the origin of the declarative --
The declarative I --
The esthetics of linguistic forms.