but in relation to the evolution of functions within a (changing) system.is a sign of power. The presence of the Author function in Western social discourse is a sign of the power attributed to it and to its representation.questions to be asked are what allowed the Author to exist? What social function (and status) does it serve as an institution? What are the conditions in which these functions are realized? How does it contribute to and fit within society's distribution of roles and power? Author's name is an act. It performs within a certain social dynamic, and serves as a means of classification, grouping, exclusion and canonization of texts. 'S goal - analysis of the author's function, the way in which it is transferred, circulated, attributed, appropriated and operates within a variety of types of discourses.subject should not be abandoned but reconsidered: understood in its functions, intervention, and system of dependencies.Foucault marks out the following characteristics of the function/discourse [2]:
1. Object of appropriation. Originally - discourse (text) was an action, a gesture, not a thing. Since the end of the 18th century it has been caught within the economic structures of property, ownership, copyrights. It is tied to legal and institutional systems that regulate and determine the realm of discourse.
2. The author function is not universal or constant. For instance, in the Middle Ages it served to guaranty validity of scientific writings, whereas today an agreed upon system of conventions provides validation for a scientific text. While in literary discourse meaning depends on the attribution of the text to an author, a dependence which only evolved and crystallized in recent time.
. The function is not formed spontaneously, but is rather constructed through a complex operation and a defined set of procedures, based on similarity in quality, style, ideology and range of time. It evolves out of and confirms the assumption of unity.
. The text bears signs referring to the author (vs. speaker), such as personal pronouns or adverbs of time and place. These produce a multiplicity of positions (in time and place) and of points of view, a plurality of egos/subjective positions characteristic of the Author function.
Michel Foucault is one of the most important names that made a contribution to social sciences in 20 th century. Foucault s method of binary oppositions and discourse analysis can be used by different ideological movements, researches. Marxists have chance to revise their theory and make the discursive analysis of the capitalist discourse. Discriminated social groups have chance to criticize the official ideology by looking at the sovereign discourse that works in their disadvantage. Foucault opened a lot of new in social sciences, by creating a very strong and valid method for social theory [9]., The key figures of post-structuralist movement in the late 1960s were French philosophers Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. In his book Of Grammatology (1967) Jacques Derrida introduced the term deconstruction , when discussing the implications of understanding language as writing rather than speech. Deconstruction is the process of showing, through close textual and conceptual analysis, how such oppositions are contradicted by the very effort to formulate and employ them. Deconstruction generally tries to demonstrate that any text is not a discrete whole but contains several contradictory meanings; that any text therefore has more than one interpretation; that the text itself links these interpretations inextricably; that the incompatibility of these interpretations is irreducible; and thus that an interpretative reading cannot go beyond a certain point.1968 Roland Barthes wrote what is largely considered to be his best-known work, the essay The Death of the Author < span align = "justify">. In his essay, Barthes criticizes the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity - his or her political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes - to distill meaning from the author's work . In this type of criticism, the experiences and biases of the author serve as a definitive explanation of the text. Readers must thus separate a literary work from ...
