Roland Barthes codes theory
Roland Barthes occupation was a french literary theorist,philosopher,critic,and a semiotician.A semiotican is a study of symbolic meanings and cultral signs .He was born on 12th november1915 and he died at a age of 65.
Within his theory he suggested that "A galaxy of signifiers ,not a structure of signifieds:it has no begining ;it is reversable and we gain access to it by several entrances,no of which can be authoritivly declared the main one ."
By this qoute he is saying "large amount of signs ,that we have to decode in order to acess it by this we are creating our own interpritation but this may differ depending on our state of mind at the timof decipering."
A metaphorical way of interpriting is theory is that "the text is a ball of thread and we are the detangerlers"
He narrowed the action of the text into 5 sections, these are:
The Hermeneutic code otherwise known as the voice of truth this is when within the text it avoids telling the truth or revealing facts to creat a era of mystery.It is often used within murder mysteriesis .
The Enigmal code or known as the emprical voice this is when tension is being build up and the audience is sitting in suspense while awaiting what is next.
The semantic code is also know as the voice of the person.It picks out a element in the text that suggests a particular often aditional meaning by away of connotation.Eg a red door is associated with danger.
The symbolic code has exactly the same principles as the semantic code apart from it is on a more indepth and wider scale.It organises semantic meanings into broader sets of meaning.eg:"love is the oppiste of selfishness.
Roland Barthes last section how the text can be interprited is the cultural code.This is the voice of the scene as it looks at audiences and looks at their wider cultural knowledge. The majority of a certain culture within the scene and the way that they are presented and their ideoligy.
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