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Statement I is Incorrect: This statement misrepresents deconstruction. Deconstruction does indeed challenge the idea that language is a reliable tool of communication, but it does not support a "self-sufficient union of signifier and signified." In fact, deconstruction argues against the stability and fixed relationship between signifier (the form of a word) and signified (the concept it represents).

Statement II is Correct: This accurately reflects one of the key ideas of deconstruction. Derrida posited that language is non-referential in the sense that it does not directly connect words to things in the world or even to stable concepts. Instead, language is seen as a system of signs where meaning is generated through the differences between signs, not through a fixed link to a referent.