The lecture titled ‘Différance’ was first presented to the Société française de philosophie on 27 January 1968, and published in the Société's Bulletin in July 1968. In June 1968, in between the presentation of ‘Différance’ as a lecture and its first publication, Julia Kristeva interviewed Jacques Derrida for the journal Information sur les sciences sociales, which was later reprinted in Positions as ‘Semiology and Grammatology’. In this interview, Kristeva suggests to Derrida that: ‘Semiology today is constructed on the model of the sign and its correlates: communication and structure’ (Kristeva, qtd in S&G: 17). ‘Semiology and Grammatology’ itself is oriented towards questions of communication as the transport of pure signifieds, and hence towards the classical concept of the sign, the transcendental signified, and phono-logocentrism. In response to the question of structure, Derrida refers the reader to the essay ‘Différance’, and to the work of différance upon the theory of synchronic structure proposed by Saussure. This work is summarised in ‘Semiology and Grammatology’ as follows: