Relationality - Meaning and structure; inversion, parallelism, opposition, equivalence.... (Eagleton 83

Decentering - The subject and myth, how emphasis on code and the relationality of meaning deemphasize the intending subject (90).

Demystification - literature, both its making of meaning and the methods for interpretation; structuralism replaces subjectivism with analysis and the literary "work" with a text.

Constructedness - meaning, dependent on codes, is exposed as neither natural, immanent, or a matter of intentionality; opens later potential for historicization. (93)

Common-sense - structuralism as an overturning of common-sense, the natural; positive aspects of this if "natural" is taken as an ideological control of meanings. (94).

Discourse - language perceived as system, but beyond the mechanical or abstract sense of langue; emphasis on multiple available forms (discourses) intersected by history/social context; notion that signs are deployed in dialogic relation with others, utterances. (100)

Humanist Fallacy - unveiling trouble with the dematerializing desire for a textless literature, pure presence, etc. (105)

Presence - deconstruction and the proposition that meaning is a product of difference, not identity; sign always infiltrated by its other; even self-presence of meaning, voice, etc. rendered impossible (113).

Metaphysical - Derridean critique, identification of a reliance on foundation or first principle outside the text; imperfect opposition, hierarchy revealed as dependant on a fictional outside verity (115).

Totalization - Barthes and post-1968 post-structuralism resist overarching systems in the political (external world) and textual (literary) spheres as equally troubling (125).