Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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| Birth: | 12th November, 1915 |
| Death: | 26th March, 1980 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Critic, Philosopher, Theorist |
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Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. Barthes' ideas explored a diverse range of fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and post-structuralism.
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