 In the neologism "arche-writing", "arche-" meaning "origin, principle, or telos", attempts to go beyond the simple division of writing/speech.Arche-writing refers to a kind of writing that precedes both speech and writing.Derrida argued that arche-writing is, in a sense, language, in that it is already there before we use it, it already has a pregiven, yet malleable, structure/genesis, which is a semi-fixed set-up of different words and syntax.