DERRIDA, JACQUES (1973), Speech and Phenomena, and other Essays on Husser'ls Theory of Signs, Northwestern University Press.

DILLON, MARTIN (1995), Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought, State University of New York Press.  A critical study of semiotic/deconstructive thinking guided by a concern that our allegedly post-modern culture is losing more than it gains from the systematic dismantling of logos in favor of doxa. (For more information click on the provided link)

DE SAUSSURE, FERDINAND (1959), General Course in General Linguistics (translated Wade Baskin), McGraw-Hill.  This classic deals with language and in particular with the “sign” in terms of its internal and external difference and arbitrary nature. (For more information click on the provided link)

JOHNSON, BARBARA (1985), The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading, Johns Hopkins University Press.  The author investigates the ways in which both literature and criticism are different from what they purport to be relative to the fundamental questions of meaning, and interpretation. (For more information click on the provided link)

VENUTI, LAWRENCE (1998), The Scandals of Translation: Towards an Ethics of Difference, Routledge.  The author argues that translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations as it occasions revelations that question the authority of dominant cultural values and institutions. (For more information click on the provided link)

WESTWOOD, ROBERT & LINSTEAD, STEPHEN (2001), The Language of Organisation, Sage.  A collection of essays that show ways to go beyond viewing language as just a means of communication to describe and explore language and organization relative to power, knowledge and discourse. (For more information click on the provided link)