Roland Barthes: Language

Roland Barthes was French philosopher, critic and literary theorist. Explore interesting quotes on language.
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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”

Roland Barthes

"Talking," in A Lover's Discourse (1977)

“… language is never innocent.”

Roland Barthes

“Isn’t the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more ‘I love you’s.”

Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Love

“The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).”

Roland Barthes book The Pleasure of the Text

Source: The Pleasure of the Text

Science

“Encratic language (the language produced and spread under the protection of power) is statutorily a language of repetition; all official institutions of language are repeating machines: schools, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words.”

Roland Barthes book The Pleasure of the Text

The Pleasure of the Text (1975)

School , Sport