On the Possibility of the Analysis of Narratve and Discourse in Roland Barthes
ROLAND BARTHES’DA ANLATI VE SÖYLEM ÇÖZÜMLEMESİNİN İMKÂNI ÜZERİNE

Author : -Mehmet Fatih ÜNAL
Number of pages : 56-71

Abstract

The analysis of linguistc structures such as discourse and narratve in the linguistc studies is a popular topic in this last century. However, it will be more proper to do such an analysis by looking at French linguistcs, the most important representatves of structuralism, especially when dealing with this analysis as a structure. For Roland Barthes, one of the unfaithful followers of the structuralist movement in 1960 and afer, “structure” is not an end but a beginning. Barthes declares that text is not a complete, fnalised work. For him, text is a construct that the reader rewrites and takes part in as a process. Therefore, this text analysis remains out of structuralist approaches defned in linguistcs. Text is not an object or structure according to Barthes’ view. Thus, text is not a specifc structure for which all reader atain the same meaning but a construct that is constructed afer each new reading. In this artcle, an account of how Barthes opens a new horizon in analysing narratve and discourse of text and structure will be provided.

Keywords

Roland Barthes, semiotcs, narratve, discourse, system

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