He would say, "Oh, no. We can decipher it, but the author function is just one aspect of the deciphering process."

他会说：“哦，不，我们可以解读，但是作者的功能只是解读过程的一个部分“

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Does he want to say that he's just an author function, that his textual field is a kind of set of structural operations within which one can discover an author?

他是不是想说他只是个功能性的作者，而他所写的文章只是一套,用于发现作者的结构上的应用程序？

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So as a function and not as a subjective consciousness to which we appeal to grasp a meaning, the author still does exist.

所以作为一种功能，而非一种我们需要领会的主观意识,作者仍是存在的。

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The author is a signal, is what Foucault calls a "function."

作者是一个标志，就像福柯所说的“功能“

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At bottom, Empson doesn't really settle into the rigorous consideration of the author, the text, or the reader as if they were separate functions.

实际上，Empson并不会,仔细考虑作者，文本，读者这些因素,就好像他们各有功能一样。

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It's a question rather of how we know the author to be there, firstly, and secondly, whether or not in attempting we should appeal to the authority of an author.

首先我们如何知道作者在那儿，其次，决定文本意义的时候,如果作者只是一种功能。

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So that's a shot fired across the bow against the author because it's Barthes' supposition that the author isn't maybe even quite an author function because that function may be hard to identify in a discrete way among myriad other functions.

因而这是对作者的警告,因为巴特推测,作者可能甚至都不是功能性的,因为这种功能可能很难通过分离的方式,在很多其他功能中被辨认出来。

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