Roland Barthes
(12 November 1915 - 26 March 1980)
Roland Barthes was a French theorist, linguist, philosopher, critic and semiotician. Barthes suggested that narrative works with five different codes that help the reader or audience comprehend the text.
Denotation and Connotation
(Signify) (Signifier)
Action - A narrative device by which a resolution is produced through action e.g. a shoot out.
Enigma - Narrative devices which tease the audience by presented a puzzle or mystery to be solved. It serves to delay the story's ending pleasurably.
Symbolic - Symbolic codes are the connotations of the images or imagery presented e.g. an allegory or a theme motif.
Semic - The denotations of the image/imagery.
Cultural - A device which the audience recognise and associate with a particular culture.
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