Contents 
Foreword to the English edition 
Preface 
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PART I 
1 Las Meninas 
2 The prose of the world 
I The four similitudes 
IT Signatures 
III The limits of the world 
IV The writing of things 
V The being of language 
Representing 
I Don Quixote 
II Order 
IIT The representation of the sign 
IV Duplicated representation 
V' The imagination of resemblance 
VI Mathesis and ‘taxinomia’ 
4 Speaking 
I Criticism and commentary 
II General grammar 
III The theory of the verb 
IV Articulation 
V' Designation 
VI Derivation 
VII The quadrilateral of language 
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