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Properly speaking this is a redundancy because ""[[structured" ]]" and ""as a [[language" ]]" for me mean exactly the same thing. Structured [[Structure]]d means my [[speech]], my [[:category:terms|lexicon]], etc., which is exactly the same as a [[language]]. And that is not all. Which [[language]]? Rather than myself it was my pupils that took a great deal of trouble to give that question a different [[meaning]], and to search for the formula of a reduced [[language]]. What are the minimum conditions, they ask themselves, necessary to constitute a [[language]]? Perhaps only four <i>signantes</i>, four signifying [[signify]]ing elements are enough. It is a curious exercise which is based on a complete error, as I hope to show you on the board in a moment. There were also some [[philosophers]], not many really but some, of those present at my [[seminar ]] in Paris who have found since then that it was not a question of an "under" [[language ]] or of "another" [[language]], not [[myth ]] for instance or phonemes[[phoneme]]s, but [[language]]. It is extraordinary the pains that all took to change the place of the question. Myths [[Myth]]s, for instance, do not take place in our consideration precisely because those are also structured [[structure]]d as a [[language]], and when I say "as a [[language]]" it is not as some special sort of [[language]], for example, [[mathematical ]] [[language]], [[semiotical ]] [[language]], or [[cinematographical ]] [[language]]. [[Language ]] is [[language ]] and there is only one sort of language[[languag]]e: [[concrete ]] [[language]] — [[English ]] or [[French ]] for instance — that people talk. The first thing to start in this context is that there is no [[meta-language]]. For it is necessary that all so called [[meta-languages language]]s be presented to you with [[language]]. You cannot teach a course in mathematics [[mathematic]]s using only letters [[[letter]]s on the board. It is always necessary to speak an ordinary [[language ]] that is understood.