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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If a person's just a P-functioning body, how could it be that after the death ? of his body he's still around?

如果人只是作为人功能的肉体，他的肉体死后,他怎么还会活着？

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It has the function, in other words, of negating its own meaning in another semiotic system, in this case the semiotic system of the stoplight.

也就是说，他有这样那样的功能，在不同语义系统中表示的甚至完全相反，就像红灯表示的这些不同含义一样。

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