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Language is legislation,...

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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Source: Lecon, Inaugural Lecture, 7 Jan. 1977, Coll?ge de France; published in Selected Writings, 1982.
-- Roland Barthes, (Nov 12 1915-1980), French critic; He was known for his contributions to structural linguistics and New Criticism intellectual movement; wrote Writing Degree Zero, 1953.


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