Roland Barthes's Semiotic Theory To Explore

The French literature theorist Roland Barthes especially drew lessons from the linguistic theories sign,the vestimentary sign,the photograph sign and other kind of social cultural signs.He built up a "empire of signs" .Roland Barthes'research of each kind of signs brought tremendous influence to the people's life in the middle period of 20C.On one hand,the process of the sign manufacture myth was apply to the media extensively,change the dissemination method of social information;on the other hand,people became sensitive to each sign,and developed a kind of insight and aware to resist to the sign myth.The semiology theories became complete with these actual effect gradually.The textual mainly researched on《The Fashion System》,combed its content,and investigated the particular circumstance.Roland Barthes used semiology theories to research on popular culture.The part of preface mainly introduced the key problem of this text,the theory process of Roland Barthes,and the evaluation and the judgement of《The Fashion System》by the academic history in China and foreign countries.The Chapterl introduced the writing origin of《The Fashion System》.The Chapter2 introduced the application of Roland Barthes's semiology theories.The Chapter3 tried to compare the contact and difference of writing method of《The Fashion System》,《Mythologies》and《Empire of Signs》.The Chapter4 would make a rethink of the influence and limit of Roland Barthes's semiology.The conclusion part of the text is a summary of the whole article.