This is because its generality does not consist in the discovery of peculiarly grammatical laws, common to all linguisticdomains, which could then be used to display the structure of any possible language in an ideal and constricting unity; if it is indeed general, then it is so to the extent that it attempts to make visible, below the level of grammatical rules, but at the same level as their foundation, the representative function of speaking discourse whether it be the vertical function, which designates what is represented, or the horizontal function, which links what is represented to the same mode as thought.