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One gets the impression that the written form of the language implementation is preferably used as reference of linguistic analysis. In contrast, the article – not least on the basis of Jacques Derrida’s De la grammatologie – supports the thesis that all realizations of both, the spoken and the written language, are complementary. Consequently, they should be treated equally in the analysis. Also the legitimacy of the hitherto dominant print-based definitions of grammatical units has been criticized.