The thesis employs a theory of macroscopical language theory from deconstructive translation proposed by Derrida.
That's not at all the same thing as to say, according to the claim of Knapp and Michaels, that in deconstructive thinking texts have no meaning -a very, very different proposition altogether.
Chapter Three analyzes a range of studies from the growing store of deconstructive literary criticism in order to identify its major features and axes of variation.