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Page 1: Barthes Theory

BARTHESCODE THEORY

Page 2: Barthes Theory

He describes a text as…

“A galaxy of signifiers, not a structure of signifieds; it has no beginning; it is reversible; we gain access to it by several entrances, none of which can be authoritatively declared to be the main one; the codes it mobilizes extend as far as the eye can read, they are indeterminable...the systems of meaning can take over this absolutely plural text, but their number is never closed, based as it is on the infinity of language..."

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This means…

The text is tangled and it has to be unravelled

Once we have unravelled the text then we come across a huge range of potential meanings or messages

You can start by looking at a narrative from one viewpoint and create one meaning for that text

You can then continue unravelling the narrative from different angles and come up with completely different meanings.

Barthes said “texts can be ‘open’ or ‘closed’

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He came up with 5 codes…

The Hermeneutic Code (HER)

The Enigma/ Proairetic Code (ACT)

The Symbolic Code (SYM)

The Cultural Code (REF)

The Semantic Code (SEM)

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The Hermeneutic Code (HER)

This is the way the story avoids revealing all the facts or giving away the truth, clues are dropped in to the story throughout to help create a sense of mystery.

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The Enigma/Proairetic Code (ACT)

This is where tension is built up and the audience is left guessing what is going to happen next.

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The Semantic Code (SEM)

The semantic code points to any element in a text that suggests a particular, often additional meaning by way of connotation which the story suggests.

Connotation= cultural/underlining meaning, what it symbolises.

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The Symbolic Code (SYM)

This is similar to the semantic code, but is on a wider scale. It organises semantic meanings into more broad and in depth sets of meaning. Usually this happens in the form of antithesis, which is where new meanings come about from opposing and conflicting ideas.

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The Culture Code (REF)

This code looks at the audiences wider cultural knowledge, morals and ideology.