Deleuze: The ontology of language and the critique of the language regime

In our thesis, we aimed to discuss the philosophy of language developed by Gilles Deleuze together with Félix Guattari and the structuralist language regime influenced by semiotics from a Deleuzian perspective. Saussure, who is considered as the founder of modern linguistics and semiotics, claimed that language is a system of signs (symbols) and formed his structural analysis from this perspective. Saussure distinguished between the immediate use of language (parole) and the general use of language (langue) and argued that there is an arbitrary connection between words and meanings; according to him, meaning for human beings is possible through social language. Lévi-Strauss adapted Saussure's oppositional relationship between speech and language, which he saw as the expression of the language faculty, to anthropology and analyzed cultural phenomena, especially in the axis of mythology and kinship strings. Lacan, one of the most important figures of the period, applied the structuralist method to psychoanalysis. Especially the concept of the mirror phase, his understanding of psychoanalytic structure and the parallelism he established between language and the unconscious are clear examples of this claim. Deleuze, Guattari and the aforementioned scientists and philosophers criticized the regime of signifiers based on the concepts of becoming, difference and repetition, multiplicity, rhizome, nomadism, and homelessness and created an original philosophy of language. The main idea of Deleuze's philosophy of language is based on the understanding of event, as in other problematics. In his philosophy of language, Deleuze tried to reveal how the desire in becoming is reflected in practical life without condemning meaning to any relation of fixity or opposition. Key Words : Language, Semiotics, Structuralism Difference, Regime of Signs..