Roland barthes

1. Roland Barthes

2. Roland Barthes Roland Barthes was born November 12 th 1915 in Cherbourg. He was a 20 th century philosopher and studied semiotics, structuralism and post-structuralism. His main interests were semiotics, literary theory and linguistics. During the period 1935-1939 he was plagued by ill health, suffering from tuberculosis whilst studying at Sorbonne.

3. Roland believes in Ferdinand De Saussure's theories, creating the idea of how signs work, but Bathes takes the theory further. He believed that all signs weren’t natural, but structured instead, he said “ people don’t start off with thoughts or perceptions of objects which they then express into language, the categories of language determine how people divide objects into categories.” Furthermore all signs depend on the entire system of signs, none of them have meaning aside from the system. Barthes does not mechanically apply Saussure's theory, he largely replaces his term ‘arbitrary’ with motivated. HIS THOUGHTS AND BELIEFS

4. Roland was very important, this is because he gave us a new way to express the language of signs. He went on to write a book about mythologies saying some signifiers have mythical status, where a sign has developed some sort of meaning that is no way backed up in history or truth…. Why was he important?

5. For example… A knight in shining armour… What do you think when you see this?

6. Bibliography (1968) - Elements of Semiology (1972) - Mythologies (1977) - Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (In this so-called autobiography, Barthes interrogates himself as a text.) (1983) - Empire of Signs (1986) - The Rustle of Language (1988) - Roland Barthes (1994) - The Semiotic Challenge