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    It is not the case that Barthes's 'death of the author' establishes that once a text is produced, it enters a semiotic field where authorial intention is structurally irrelevant to signification.

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    • 1.Authors structurally constrain meaning through genre conventions, syntactic choices, and narrative structure, which readers must navigate to generate any interpretation.
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    • 2.Conflating 'authorial intention's irrelevance to signification' with 'authorial intention is unknowable' commits an epistemic-ontological category error.
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    • 3.Intentional design is empirically demonstrable in texts—coherence, foreshadowing, and thematic unity require purposive authorial shaping, not just reader construction.
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    • 1.Readers inevitably interpret texts through their own cultural frameworks, making authorial intent inaccessible regardless of author's efforts to communicate it.
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    • 2.Historical evidence shows identical texts generate radically different meanings across contexts, demonstrating meaning emerges from readers, not authorial design.
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    • 3.Language itself is a shared social system where signs precede any individual author, so authorial intention cannot control how signs function semiotically.
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